Yuta goes to help his father-in-law in his photography studio while the father-in-law is healing from a broken leg. He communicates with his wife and daughter by sending photos.
A film for how we live today, this is a film about how we communicate our lives to others and remember the past. Its a film that is about life as it is being lived right now.
I was staggered by this film. There is so much going on in this film even though not a lot seems to happen that I know I am going to be visiting this film for decades to come.
So often now filmmakers will compose their shots like paintings and photgraphs just to show off but here director Miiku Sakanishi composes the shots like photographs because Yuta is composing his images to share with his family. Sakanishi uses the conciet of the film in order to further the tale and the emotional resonances he is creating. There are so many levels here that by the end you will have had several ah ha moments.
What amazes me is that not a hell of a lot happens. Life goes on but there is no false drama. Nothing happens to drive the plot in any sort of artifiical way. Rather things play out as they would in life. But Sakanishi is so masterful you'll probably be like me, and almost an hour in before you realize that there has been nothing like a conventional plot happening. Honestly I would never have noticed it but something happened and I noticed the time.
What is this film doing at Tribeca? I ask that not as question about quality, but rather this is the sort of film that usually starts at Berlin or Cannes and then moved to the NYFF. This is the sort of high brow but accessible film those fests try to program but rarey do. Perhaps the film is to accessible and they wouldn't run it. What ever the reason it's their loss.
What isn't a loss is that the film has just played Tribec, which means that you need to go out and buy a ticket and see this wonderful film.
One of the best films at Tribeca and probably 2026 as well.
tablaeus and phots because its about communicvating via photos
portrait of life as lived done in the style of what we are seeing on film but more than just form its operating on larger levels.
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