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Great Absence
Directed by
Kei Chikaura
2023
2h 14m
Drama
,
Family
,
and more
6.5
88%
Rent for $5.99
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
Kei Chikaura
Director / Producer
Keita Kumano
Writer
Miho Horiike
Producer
Great Absence Ratings & Reviews
The Asian Cut
Paul Emmanuel Enicola
For all its disorientation, the film is piercingly lucid about what it means to lose someone before they leave this world.
Seattle Film Blog
Kathy Fennessy
There's a tendency in films about dementia to resort to sentiment and cliché, which [Kei] Chika-ura handily avoids in Great Absence, but the directness of Complicity [his previous film] proves more emotionally involving
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.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
A deeply felt performance by Fuji infuses the inherent melancholy with empathetic grace, quiet dignity, and relatable humanity.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Claudia Puig
It's quite moving and really noteworthy for the performance of the veteran Japanese actor Tatsuya Fuji.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
A beguiling and touching transference of understanding across time and memory.
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.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
Chika-ura's film may start as a mystery ... At every turn, though, the screenplay ... confounds those expectations...
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
To follow it all requires close attention, but it's an attention that's rewarded.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Tightly knotted -- but quietly immense.
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.
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.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Haunting, engrossing and poetic.
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.
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