简介: Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter. Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.
沃伊捷赫·福多兹芝基,Ondrej Stupka,塔蒂阿娜·保霍福娃,Stanislav Majer,沃依特赫·科特克,玛丽卡·索波斯卡,佩德罗·林涅尼奇卡,马丁·霍夫曼,Petr Halícek,马提亚斯·热兹尼切克,Jacob Erftemeijer,扬·奈德巴尔,托马斯·马斯塔利,伊戈尔·巴雷斯,Michaela Majerníková,Jevgenij Libeznuk,扬·诺沃特尼,Tomás Weber,丹尼尔·图马,Kupcová Marie Anna