| INTERNATIONALE PRESSESTIMMEN |
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| Das ist einer der zutiefst wahren Filme über das Familienleben, die man je gesehen hat. |
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| LE TEMPS |
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| Kore-eda gehört zu den besten japanischen Filmschaffenden und ist gleichzusetzen mit den großartigen vorangegangenen Autoren Ozu und Kurosa-wa. |
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| MATIN |
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| Es ist so absolut packend, so sicher in seinen Feinheiten und der Betrachtung, dass der Rest der Welt, während du den Film anschaust, einfach unbedeutend wird. |
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| THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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| Heiter und von Wärme erfüllt - ein Juwel! |
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| VARIETY |
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| This is a touching, intelligent and nostalgic picture. A delight to behold - humorous, moving, affectionate. |
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| SCREEN INTERNATIONAL |
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| A subtly nuanced family drama that resonates long after its hushed ending. A flawless script. Refreshingly contemporary. |
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| THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER |
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| A delicate, devastating Japanese tragicomedy. |
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| INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY |
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| Koreeda’s almost sage-like understanding of what makes modern families tick places him and this wonderful film in the league of Japan’s grand master, Ozu, and you can’t ask for higher praise than that. |
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| TIME OUT |
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| A beautifully measured melodrama that owes much to Yasujiro Ozu’s Japanese classic TOKYO STORY. |
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| TIMES |
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| This is a higher order of storytelling, and this gentle, lovely film is impossible to watch without a lump in the throat. |
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| GUARDIAN |
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| An acutely observed and tenderly rendered portrait of family, mortality and remembering. |
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| DAILY TELEGRAPH |
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| Koreeda´s big theme is the transience of all our lives, but he doesn´t make a meal of it. Instead, he essays a moving restraint that evokes Ozu’s vintage domestic dramas – no mean feat. |
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| TOTAL FILM |
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| Full of the small revelations that make up everyone´s memories and regrets. It is beautifully acted too. |
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| THIS IS LONDON |
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| Limpidly shot, translucently acted, STILL WALKING steals up on you quietly and stays with you forever. |
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| FINANCIAL TIMES |
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| The writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda, who made the brilliant AFTER LIFE, has the imaginative sympathy of a great novelist, unsparing yet not unforgiving in his examination of a family held together by habit, regret and, ultimately, an unspoken love. |
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| INDEPENDENT |
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| Told with a measured pace, STILL WALKING gently beguiles as it captures the tensions, the silly misunderstandings, love and lingering regrets that are present in all families. |
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| DAILY EXPRESS |
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| STILL WALKING strikes an extraordinary balance between the moment-to-moment pleasure of life and the inevitable regret that accompanies time´s passing. |
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| MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE |
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| Pitch-perfect and profoundly moving ... |
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| PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER |
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| The tone is perfect; this is one of those rare films that, despite being rooted firmly in the world around us, is utterly absorbing and capable of reducing the immediacies of life into abstract thoughts in the back of one´s mind. |
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| REELVIEWS |
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| It will strongly move you, but you won´t be able to say exactly why. It illuminates 24 hours in the life of a Japanese family, and though it may appear that not much is happening, by the end everything is revealed. |
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| LOS ANGELES TIMES |
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| The director has said that, though the story was inspired by the deaths of his parents, he hoped to make a film "brimming with life." He´s succeeded. |
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| SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE |
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| One fears to blink, because some essential element in the story will be lost and, with it, some nuance, of which there are many. |
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| WASHINGTON POST |
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| If anyone can be considered an heir of the great Yasujiro Ozu, it might be Hirokazu Kore-Eda, the writer and director of STILL WALKING. |
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| CHICAGO SUN-TIMES |
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| Kore-eda, talented director that he is, never allows the story to sink into soap-opera melodrama, and he refrains from pointing fingers. |
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| NEW YORK POST |
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| Kore-eda has an extraordinary grasp on his characters, modest people who clearly mean a great deal to him. They will to you, as well. |
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| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
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| The Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has a deceptively simple touch with the quiet, stirring film STILL WALKING. |
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| NEW YORK TIMES |
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| Its modest surface belies the depths of a lovely seriocomedy that concisely lays bare all kinds of uncomfortable dynamics in seemingly casual, low-key fashion. |
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| VARIETY |
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| A subtly nuanced family drama that resonates long after its hushed ending. |
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| HOLLYWOOD REPORTER |
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| A delicate, deceptively simple film. |
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