Todays achingly beautiful Japanese family drama on Netflix Disk: Hirozaku Koreadas 2008 STILL WALKING, about a somewhat-estranged younger son who reluctantly takes his new family to visit his elderly parents on the tenth anniversary of the older brothers death by drowning. An astoundingly subtle drama; there are many issues between the family members, but everybodys on their best behavior and nothing is spelled out (or neatly resolved) with histrionics, the way it would be in an American film. There are no big scenes, just smaller ones where people chatter on about irrelevancies while occasional asides and body language tell the story. And yet, I grinned with recognition about a hundred times. This is the third Koreada film I have seen, and the best, but I think all of them are splendidly subtle character studies, worth seeing; but you will miss all of it, really, if you watch with a distracted eye. Strongly recommended.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:42:02 +0000