Werner Herzog has reportedly once said that his documentary and fiction protagonists are, if not same persons, than at least closely related and inhabiting the same world. The brilliant German filmmaker has done his best to blur the lines between the two worlds, focusing on the documentary side lately in his career, but with his newest, Japan-set American-produced film “Family Romance, LLC” he has taken the most determined step in that direction. The film premiered as a special screening at the last year’s edition of Cannes before the festival tour, some niche theatrical distribution and finally hitting the streaming service Mubi this summer.
The film opens with Ishii Yuichi sitting and waiting for someone on a bench in the park before he approaches the 12-year old girl Mahiro, admitting to her that he is her long-absent father. As he says, he had left Mahiro and her mother while the...
The film opens with Ishii Yuichi sitting and waiting for someone on a bench in the park before he approaches the 12-year old girl Mahiro, admitting to her that he is her long-absent father. As he says, he had left Mahiro and her mother while the...
- 9/29/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
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