Tony Takitani (2004)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 46 | Rotten: 6
Despite its deceptive wispiness, this delicately lovely and melancholy film about loneliness has a haunting power.
Average Rating: 8.1/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 0
Despite its deceptive wispiness, this delicately lovely and melancholy film about loneliness has a haunting power.
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A man who has lived a life of emotional isolation discovers the dark side of falling in love in this drama from Japanese filmmaker Jun Ichikawa. Tony Takitani (Issey Ogata) is the son of a Japanese musician with a passion for jazz who spent most of World War II in Shanghai, and was later sentenced to a stretch in prison following the war. Tony was named in honor of an American serviceman who befriended his father, but his name also earned him the suspicion of his classmates, and he had few close
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An ethereal modern fable without a moral, Tony Takatani seeps into the soul and lingers. For filmgoers in search of a quietly absorbing escape, it might be the perfect holiday-movie antidote.
Top CriticThough it falters as a narrative, Tony Takitani sticks in the mind with its poetic contemplativeness.
Like a cultivated orchid, the delicate product of careful attention and an appreciation for fleeting beauty.
It's a marvelously moody meditation, beautiful to look at and beautiful to ponder as the camera slowly pans from one scene to the next, framing life as still life.
It's a film for specialized tastes, quiet, delicate. But it suits those tastes beautifully.
Tony Takitani, fablelike and beautiful, requires a certain amount of patience, but its small, peculiar charms work their way into your soul.
Scarcely satisfies, yet it lingers -- limpidity of image along with imperceptible epiphanies
What makes this documentary stand out is the manner in which it mimics the aloof poetry of the film.
Ichikawa brilliantly captures Murakami's blend of whimsy, irony and melancholy, while finding intelligent and inventive ways to convert the author's verbal idiosyncrasies to a visual medium.
This could reverently be called a model of minimalism, but I am more inclined to call it dull as dishwater.
Jun Ichikawa's adaptation of a short story by celebrated Japanese novelist Haruki Murakama is a quiet ode to isolation, loss, and our human desire to love and be loved.
Filme de construção poética e delicada, encanta pelo tocante estudo de personagens e por discutir, através de seus quadros reveladores, temas complexos como a solidão, a natureza da memória, fetiches e obsessões.
An impressive achievement.
Jun Ichikawa's slight, lovely little drama understands the pleasure of seeing, using many quiet, patient takes to absorb its delicate visuals.
embodies that lose-lose conundrum we all face: loneliness is painful, but finding and then losing love is just as bad
Ichikawa evokes the heady and suffocating effect of the past playing irrevocable catch-up with itself.
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