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.
宋康昊,林秀晶,吴正世,全余赟,郑秀晶
吴竞,杨立新
高杉真宙,武田梨奈,松本穗香,水野胜,黑崎莉奈
卡里姆·莱克路,伊萨卡·萨瓦德戈,约翰·雷森,尼古拉·比斯,克莱尔·博德森,西蒙·弗雷,巴贝蒂达·萨乔,杰里米·扎格巴,玛莎坎·加安·东尼奥,罗纳德·贝姆斯
琳赛·洛翰,斯宾塞·加雷特,朱莉娅·奥蒙德
克莱斯·邦,奥古斯特·迪赫,尤利娅·斯尼吉尔,尤里·科洛科利尼科夫,亚历山大·亚森科,叶甫盖尼·齐加诺夫,亚伦·沃多沃兹,Dmitry,Vorontsov,阿列克塞·古斯科夫,阿列克谢·罗津,波琳娜·奥格,德米特里·雷先科夫,尤里·德雷文舍克,Evgeniy,Knyazev,尼基塔·塔拉索夫,马拉特·巴沙罗夫,列昂尼德·亚尔莫利尼克,伊戈尔·韦尔尼克,帕维尔·沃罗日佐夫,亚历山大·秋金