The screenings of the Film Club of Patras at Options Cinemas Veso Mare continue, with Koji Fukada’s film, “Love, Life” on Monday, March 11 at 7 p.m. and at 9.30 p.m.
As Giorgos Krassakopoulos reports: “The title of Koji Fukanda’s new film comes from Akiko Yano’s song of the same title, which can be heard in its entirety during the end credits. The director says that he first heard regarding it twenty years ago and since then he has been looking for a way to bring something like a film adaptation of it to the screen.
“No matter the distance between us, nothing will ever stop me from loving you,” say the lyrics of the song, among other things, and in the film, the distance between the pair of heroes will grow sharply when a tragic event divide their life into before and following.
Taeko and her son from Keita’s previous marriage live with her new husband Jiro, a comfortable family life even if Jiro’s parents find it difficult to accept that their son has married a divorced woman. But when, at a party at the family home, little Keita drowns in the bathtub, everyone’s lives will change. Not only from the thick veil of grief but also from the reappearance of Keito’s biological father, a deaf man who will re-enter Taeko’s life.
Understated even in its most dramatic moments, Fukada’s film is a painstaking portrait of a cast of characters and the different ways they face a truly cosmic ordeal. A study of how grief and bereavement can be a force that can tear relationships and people apart or bring them back together.
The charm of the film lies in the way it handles its emotional climaxes, with moderation and care, but some conveniences in the path followed by its characters, reduce the intensity that the film might have. Coincidence and randomness aren’t always the best guide to a story, especially in a film that wants to be, more than anything else, real and human.”
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