Still Walking
There is never a moment when we are not anxious to know more of what fuels each character’s resentments. Kore-eda is a marvellous director of actors and a true heir to the rich tradition of family dramas in Japanese cinema. There’s a typically witty Kore-eda twirl in the weave about an old vinyl record and who, it turns out, still knows how to play it.
Admirers of Kore-eda’s work will not fail to notice that the subject of coping with grief is a recurring theme of his work, and there are some obvious resemblances to the second half of Maboroshi, both in the visual treatment and in the subject matter. However, in ”Still Walking”, Kore-eda succeeds more comprehensively, with a wider range of credible and complex characters and resonant objects. It helps also, perhaps, that he has stayed with the living and has so firmly grounded himself within this one family home.
– ROGER MACY, MIDNIGHT EYE
Duration: 114 min
Dialogue: Japanese
Subtitles: English
