Résonance personnelle True Mothers est adapté d un roman à succès au Japon : Le Matin arrive de Mizuki Tsujimura. En le portant à l écran, Naomi Kawase aborde une thématique qu elle a déjà traitée dans certains de ses films : la maternité. La réalisatrice précise : Ce roman traite de deux façons d’être mère : être une mère de sang, et être une mère adoptive. J’ai moi-même été élevée par des parents adoptifs, et découvrir cette œuvre était un signe du destin. Présence de la nature La forte présence d’éléments naturels dans le film ne se retrouve pas dans le livre. La cinéaste explique : Les plans autour de la nature, sur les arbres, le vent, la mer… participent à mon interprétation personnelle du monde. Je tiens énormément à la présence de la nature dans ce que je filme. À tel point que c’est devenu effectivement un code de mon cinéma. Et chaque plan de cette nature porte une signification. Par exemple pen
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Atmospheric but sentimental: Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase casts her gaze on adoption
by Markie Robson-ScottThursday, 15 April 2021
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th floor of a Tokyo apartment building, a charming little boy brushes his teeth, watched over by his smiling mother who sings to him gently. He’s full of joy - today his dad’s coming with them on the walk to nursery school. The little family of three walk out together. All seems well – too well - in their comfortable, quiet world.
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JAPANESE filmmaker Naomi Kawase returns with a tender and touching exploration of adoption and parenthood in this stunning drama, Japan’s submission for this year’s Academy Awards.
The film follows successful professionals Sakoto (Hiromi Nagasaku) and her husband (Arata Iura) who, after a long and unsuccessful struggle to have children, decide to adopt a baby boy. Their world is rocked years later when a girl (Aju Makita), pretending to be the youngster’s birth mother, turns up on their doorstep.
The story unfolds via a non-linear time structure as you witness differing perspectives from each of the protagonists a little confusing at first. With gorgeous, calming visuals of watery landscapes, leafy branches blowing in the wind and breathtaking sunsets interspersed throughout, Kawase paints a thought-provoking picture of the guilt and heartbreak of couples not able to have children and young teenage mothers being forced to give up their babies because they ca