Dolls

Watched this after almost 3 years for a second time and it was even better. Kitano offers such a nuanced and mature perspective on death and makes the tradition of bunraku into a moder medium. He does so in its most beautiful and poetic film (both in photography, composition and usage of colors) with an ensemble of characters impeccably dressed by Yohih Yamamoto. I can't wrap my head around the quietness and stillness of this movie that speaks more of hundred of hours of dialogues. A perfect movie about the clash between social expectations and love. A love that splits in three equally tragic and moving stories, almost timeless and glorious for their magnitude against a shallow societal backdrop. Guerrilla film-making in the form of silence. And an incredibly sorrow soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi.