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Great Absence
Directed by
Kei Chikaura
2023
2h 32m
Drama
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Family
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6.3
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Follows the story of the reconciliation of a father and son who had been estranged for a long time among lost memories and dispersed pieces of lives.
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Cast of Great Absence
Mirai Moriyama
Takashi
Yoko Maki
Yuki
Hideko Hara
Naomi
Tatsuya Fuji
Yohji
Masaki Miura
Great Absence Ratings & Reviews
Variety
Jessica Kiang
Even though "Great Absence" is a little overlong and its framing device, an avant-garde theater piece, feels unnecessary, in another way its multiple strands and many endings are extraordinarily, poetically appropriate.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Haunting, engrossing and poetic.
In Review Online
Dhruv Goyal
Its constant attempts at soul-searching for mysterious absences through narrative overload only make emphasizes its essential, damning absences: of intrigue, mystery, emotion, and intellect.
The Film Stage
Oliver Weir
Kei Chika-ura's Great Absence is not natural and convincing in spite of its thrilling (if not always successful) blend of Florian Zeller's The Father and Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder, but because of it.
indieWire
David Ehrlich
Tightly knotted -- but quietly immense.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
To follow it all requires close attention, but it's an attention that's rewarded.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
Chika-ura's film may start as a mystery ... At every turn, though, the screenplay ... confounds those expectations...
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Cconveys the bursts of anger and lashing out that often adjoin dementia, and it makes for a showcase for one of Japan's best actors.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
A beguiling and touching transference of understanding across time and memory.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Claudia Puig
It's quite moving and really noteworthy for the performance of the veteran Japanese actor Tatsuya Fuji.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
A deeply felt performance by Fuji infuses the inherent melancholy with empathetic grace, quiet dignity, and relatable humanity.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
The reality of these situations gets teased out over a methodically paced two and a half hours whose low-key intricacy is rewarding, but requires close attention.
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