Maborosi
Milestone Film & Video | Release Date: March 21, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
92
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Maborosi is one of those valuable films where you have to actively place yourself in the character's mind. There are times when we do not know what she is thinking, but we are inspired with an active sympathy. We want to understand. Well, so does she. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Kore-eda weaves these images and others, building a multilayered fugue that contemplates death, asks if mourning ever truly ends and addresses the ephemeral nature of love, family and home. Everything we value and use to define and frame our lives, he suggests, is always at risk. Read full review
100
The New York TimesStephen Holden
A pictorial tone poem of astonishing visual intensity and emotional depth. Read full review
90
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The 33-year-old Koreeda, who began his career in documentary, has a gift for observing life as it's lived, accumulating simple, seemingly banal scenes into an unforgettable reflection on the frustration and helplessness of trying to explain the ineffable. Read full review
88
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Maborosi is a worthwhile movie experience not because it ventures into virgin territory, but because its presentation is so precise and unique. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
It is a sombre and painful drama, enacted with reserve. There are no closeups, and it is fully one hour into the running time before we get even a medium shot of the female lead’s face. Even then there are shadows. Read full review
80
VarietyDavid Stratton
This visually lush but sometimes ponderously slowfilm is a poetic saga of love and loss. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The concept of loss, and the sorrow that shadows it, is not what you'd call an uncommon theme in films, but rarely is it handled with such uncommon eloquence as it is in Maborosi. Read full review
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