hirokazu kore-eda is like the anti kiyoshi kurosawa. a film brimming with sentimentality but the movie earns that by smartly placing connective tissue between all main characters.
i do wished the two investigators were more actual characters but most of the cast has a reason and a goal that go over eachother or compliment eachother. while it is another film bringing to light the reality of lower class people, it does so in a very earnest way and is mostly void of nihilism for most of its runtime which feels fresh. sure, i don't think its as smart as other films that empty to critique a certain element of modern capitalist society but again, it does so with wearing its sentimentality on its sleeve.
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Some leave. Some retrieve.
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6/8/2022Runtime
129 minsOverview
When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
KoreanBudget
$7,800,000Revenue
$18,632,208Homepage
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A deceptively tender road movie that begins as a crime story but gradually reveals itself as a meditation on parenthood, belonging, and what we owe to each other. It moves with the unhurried pace of people learning to care for something they didn't expect to keep.
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