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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 21, 2020 8:30:57 GMT
Just saw this and while it was enjoyable enough, I was a little disappointed. Can't quite put my finger on it, but something was missing, quite possibly due to the director working outside his native language. It felt like there was more there, that maybe I wasn't picking up on, so I'll probably give it another watch at some point. Unfortunately I'd also rate it one of his weakest visually.
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Post by rudeboy on May 21, 2020 13:29:38 GMT
I haven't seen this yet. I love Koreeda but the most recent film of his which I saw, The Third Murder, was watchable, but derivative and forgettable and this seems to be the same... hopefully he'll turn out something brilliant again soon.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 22, 2020 13:06:57 GMT
I haven't seen this yet. I love Koreeda but the most recent film of his which I saw, The Third Murder, was watchable, but derivative and forgettable and this seems to be the same... hopefully he'll turn out something brilliant again soon. I didn't mind The Third Murder. It was one of his weaker efforts, but it was still interesting to see him out of his comfort zone, tackling something closer to a "genre" film. Also admired the extremely limited color palette.
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Post by Reynard on May 22, 2020 13:53:00 GMT
I have to be honest, without Kore-eda's name to it, I may have paused the trailer halfway through. It just doesn't look interesting at all to me. Haven't seen The Third Murder yet, though I have it on Blu-ray.
Still Walking is one my favorite films ever and I really like Kore-eda, but it's true that his movies are very similar to each other. It will be interesting at least to see him do something different with these two.
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Post by Reynard on Oct 28, 2020 1:05:10 GMT
Well, I finally got around to watching this few days ago. The best way to put it would be that The Truth is a good movie that I personally found quite uninteresting. Technically well made but nothing outstanding audio-visually and the plot just didn't keep my interest that well. What was it about anyway, besides the obvious generations / family dynamics thing? Cinema and acting as a form escapism, or as a therapy, or both? Films crew as another "family"? Or was the whole "mother from space" sub-plot just a clumsy, obvious metaphor? I didn't pick up what the movie-within-movie structure was supposed to represent.
Watched The Third Murder also for the first time and liked it more, but I think it's a difficult film to understand and appreciate for those of us who do not know much anything about the Japanese legal system. Arrow Academy Blu-ray, which I watched, has really informative interview with Tony Rayns and much of it is about this aspect of the film. Maybe I'll like it more the next time. Still, I feel that Kore-eda was at least a bit fish out of water with this kind of material.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 28, 2020 21:54:59 GMT
Well, I finally got around to watching this few days ago. The best way to put it would be that The Truth is a good movie that I personally found quite uninteresting. Technically well made but nothing outstanding audio-visually and the plot just didn't keep my interest that well. What was it about anyway, besides the obvious generations / family dynamics thing? Cinema and acting as a form escapism, or as a therapy, or both? Films crew as another "family"? Or was the whole "mother from space" sub-plot just a clumsy, obvious metaphor? I didn't pick up what the movie-within-movie structure was supposed to represent. Watched The Third Murder also for the first time and liked it more, but I think it's a difficult film to understand and appreciate for those of us who do not know much anything about the Japanese legal system. Arrow Academy Blu-ray, which I watched, has really informative interview with Tony Rayns and much of it is about this aspect of the film. Maybe I'll like it more the next time. Still, I feel that Kore-eda was at least a bit fish out of water with this kind of material. I'd probably need to give it another watch to pick up the full context of the "film within a film". A better understanding of the Japanese legal system would have helped with The Third Murder, though there were other elements I could appreciate without that. Don't have the Blu-ray but I may pick it up as I have a physical copy of most Kore-eda films.
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