简介： Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter. Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.
吉莲·安德森,凯莉·霍威,比莉·派佩,卢夫斯·塞维尔,萝玛拉·嘉瑞,伊芙·海因德,理查德·古尔丁,加文·斯派克,蒂姆·本廷克,罗非洛·迪格托勒,迪韦恩·托马斯,保罗·帕波维尔,Nigel Finnissy,泰·赫尔利,Theresa Godly,Jordan Kouamé,Daniel Charles Doherty,Nicholas A. Newman,Mielé Houska-Mitchell,Poppy Beck