“Contemplative and poignant, it is also distinguished by a deep perceptiveness about the way humans behave. In purely cinematic terms, this may be the pick of the festival.” —Peter Calder, NZ Herald
Since featuring at last year’s NZIFF, this quiet, richly perceptive family drama has been nominated by critics around the world as one of 2009’s best films.
“What’s remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s seventh feature film and one every bit as sensitive as his previous triumphs After Life and Nobody Knows, is that the familiar comes across as fresh. Despite recycling potential clichés – the grouchy elderly father, the disenfranchised second son – Kore-eda imbues the story with such specificity, tactility, and humanity that yet another movie about a dysfunctional family reunion becomes a cinematic tone poem.” — Anthony Kaufman, Village Voice.
“A supremely subtle portrayal of the tensions within a Japanese family puts Kore-eda in the same league as his country’s masters.” — Trevor Johnson, Sight & Sound
“Moviemaking of a rare emotional subtlety… we are in the presence of a new classic.” —Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
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