Kore-Eda's Shoplifters is one of my favorite movies, so I had high expectations for Asura. But at first I felt disappointed: it seemed quite banal; but I did keep watching. Luckily I did, because I was very wrong: there's so much in here about what it means to be human, to live, to love, to suffer and to care for people around you. Beautiful.
@mario thanks for the translation of the title of Maborosi! I saw it for the first time last night. I find his later films much more obvious and approachable. Maborosi and Distance were both a little too subtle for me. I wonder if it's the films or something about the cultural or literal translation.
Both were featured prominently in this video essay, https://kogonada.com/portfolio/the-world-according-to-koreeda-hirokazu and I thought the themes raised by #Kogonada in that video were not the ones you'd pick from the later career of #KoreEda. So yes, I'll have to rewatch them both with a different perspective in mind.
I've been preparing for the #talkback at the #boedecker this Thursday for the film #monster (from director Hirokazu Kore-eda). I haven't actually seen Monster yet, but there are 2 themes worth raising after just about any #koreeda movie.
First, most of his movies are about abnormal, non-traditional families. In his movies, families are ad-hoc, made of whoever happens to be handy and whoever needs a place to fit in.
Second, his films show a radical empathy for bad people doing bad things.
Come see for yourself https://thedairy.org/event/monster/2024-02-22/
Javi
Teleblog.it
Ives
Blank Frank
Blank Frank
Ariane Binot
Magdalena Köster
Martin
Liz