A film about human vulnerability, empathy, social injustice and the complex emotions that emerge in moments of distress. With a runtime of nearly three hours, it unfolds a series of stories within the confines of a 19th-century clinic. Toshiro Mifune delivers a masterful performance as Dr. Kyojo Niide, known as "Red Beard", who works tirelessly to heal the bodies and spirits of his patients.
For the first two hours, Kurosawa takes us through a variety of stories involving the doctor's…
It takes time and patience, but the use of multiple perspectives works remarkably well to ease into the first hours and become fully immersed in the story. As always, Tarr makes me eagerly anticipate each new shot. When it comes to cinematography, there’s truly no one like him. Beautiful and meditative slow cinema—this time, extra slow.
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• The film contains one of the longest average shot lengths in any motion picture: 145.7 seconds. A single long take approximately 4…
It always takes days or weeks before I'm able to write something meaningful about a Tarkovsky, as if my brain still has to process everything for a certain period of time. I could write a lot about this one and the intense impression it made on me, but I just want to say that the man and his work touch my soul deeply. Some of these images will sweetly haunt me and stay with me forever.
I will probably write…
7.5/10
After some documentaries, Kore-eda came up with a strong first fiction film about a young woman whose husband commits suicide without warning or apparent reason, leaving behind his wife and their three-month-old son. What follows is a long process of the young woman dealing with the loss and, even more, with the deep incomprehension. The story is delivered in a very calm and somber tone and the conversations are sparse. The cinematography is, as we are used to from…
