Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in a terrifically moving true story, while Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening play a couple who find a loophole in the lottery … and try to win big
Too soon! Comma or not, the English-language title of Japanese writer/director Hirokazu Kore-eda often wrenching new family drama (winner of the Jury Prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival) bears too distinct a resemblance to the name of 1987’s universally beloved Dudley Moore/Kirk Cameron starter. What’s next, Japan? A movie whose title translates into Gone, With The Wind?
Okay, that’s enough out of me. But in all seriousness, the not inapt but too on-the-nose English language title of Soshite chichi ni naru (which, Google Translate tells me, works out to something like And I Will Be His Father ) is the worst thing about this movie. Kore-eda, whose pictures don’t exactly alternate between soulful, understated fantastic fables ( Afterlife, Air Doll ) and quiet family dramas ( Still Walking ), brings his trademark delicate but deliberate eye (and ear) to a really heartbreaking scenario. Six years into raising their only child Keita, whose birth left the young moth