Great Absence

Name: Great Absence
Genre: Drama
Released: July 19, 2024
Duration: 152 min
Rating: 82

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Picturehouse | Release Date: July 19, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Distanced from his father Yohji for twenty years, Takashi is brought back home by a jarring police call–Yohji has disconnected from reality due to dementia, and his second wife Naomi is missing. Asked where she is, the old man replies that she committed suicide. While trying to find out about the stepmother, Takashi traces the past of YohjiDistanced from his father Yohji for twenty years, Takashi is brought back home by a jarring police call–Yohji has disconnected from reality due to dementia, and his second wife Naomi is missing. Asked where she is, the old man replies that she committed suicide. While trying to find out about the stepmother, Takashi traces the past of Yohji he has never been able to accept.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 152 min

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Robert Abele

Jul 26, 2024

Working from an excellent screenplay (by Chika-ura and Keita Kumano) that’s a finely tuned model of narrative empathy, and boasting an all-timer portrait of decline by the great Tatsuya Fuji (“In the Realm of the Senses”), it conveys both keen insight into a tough situation and, at the same time, intriguingly lets some workings of the heart and mind remain impenetrable. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Jul 18, 2024

In the end, Great Absence contains the grace that arises from a great struggle. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jul 19, 2024

Great Absence isn’t quite as allergic to sentiment as this slow and steady film might seem on the surface, and it’s prone to metaphor in a way that a less honest story would never be able to survive, but Kei is committed to keeping things at the same even keel as Yamazaki Yutaka’s locked-off cinematography. Read full review

The Film Stage Oliver Weir

Jul 18, 2024

For all the weak symbolism, Great Absence‘s achronological structure is a triumph. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 4, 2024

Fuji’s performance is the highlight here, a man of science and obsessive Ham radio buff struggling to communicate what he’s going through but failing to soften his personality as his memory, and the self-control it might contain, fail. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jul 19, 2024

Anyone who has dealt with the deterioration of a parent will find something resonant in Chika-ura’s film, one that can sometimes feel self-indulgent in its pacing and length but never loses its nuance, thanks both to its refined direction and a truly stellar performance from the legendary Tatsuya Fuji. Read full review

Calan Panchoo

Jul 18, 2024

The film is an exquisite journey, wonderfully acted, sublimely shot, and thoughtfully conceived. Read full review

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