Daily Archives: August 4, 2024

Movie Review: An Elegy to Age, Memory and Regret — “Great Absence”

“Great Absence,” the festival-feted “breakout film” of director and co-writer Kei Chika-ura, is a somber, obscure mystery about memory, regret and entropy. It’s centered on a son trying to learn what his long-estranged father was really like before dementia took … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A daughter missing for a decade “comes home” — “Reawakening”

Jared Harris and Juliet Stevenson play the parents, distraught yet never giving up hope in this thriller. But when that daughter (Erin Doherty)  shows up, there are “so many questions.” A Sept. 13 UK opening is set for this one, … Continue reading

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