Radiance

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Radiance

2017

1h 41m

Drama

Romance

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Misako is a passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori, an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. Misako soon discovers Nakamori's photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Together, they will learn to see the radiant world that was invisible to her eyes.

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Namrata Joshi

The Hindu

07/12/2018

The film moves languidly, pausing interminably on the innumerable close-ups and somehow manages to render a potentially profound take on the urgency for conversation and interaction into maudlin melodrama.

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

05/26/2017

It's all set-up and no follow through.

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David Sexton

London Evening Standard

05/25/2017

4/5

Gentle and delicate, touching and open-hearted.

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Alan Ng

Film Threat

05/01/2023

7.5/10

Radiance is a drama in every sense of the word.

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

05/01/2023

4.5/5

It’s a love story of sorts, but one which demands a lot more of its protagonists – and its audience – than most of its ilk.

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Chris Mello

In Review Online

04/28/2023

But because the film is so often satisfied to lifelessly plod through the motions of a middling drama so light it might evaporate, there’s not enough here to engage with past the surface.

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09/01/2021

Já estou apaixonada nas obras de Naomi Kawase, depois do "Sabor da Vida", quero maratonar todos, pena não ter disponíveis, mantém se aqui o ar dramático, entretanto não é tão envolvente e cativante, ficou mais escuro e frio, mas a sensibilidade dela para temas complexos e sua retratação de forma convincente e necessária são magníficas, uma grande cineasta (direção e roteiro), rodeadas de ótimos profissionais, atores, produção, locações, lindo…

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04/08/2021

A very interesting work by Kawase. Highly recommended.

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03/18/2020

The most subtle love story captured with beautiful visual asthetics and lightplay. An absolute must watch.

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10/26/2019

It was too obvious. It's about blindness and so the entire movie is about light.

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06/10/2019

Totally art film. Perfect.

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09/07/2018

A beautiful but flawed movie. Kawase's movies have a quietness about them that allows for moments and interactions to breathe, and Radiance is no different. If Kawase would balance the slow and poetic movement of her camera-and the many emotional closeups -with more grounded, less pretentious dialogue, I think works like this could come closer to masterpiece territory. While Radiance could perhaps have gone deeper emotionally, by (for example) providing more backstory for Awase's character, I still found it to be a moving story about loss and acceptance.

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Naomi Kawase

Director

Masatoshi Nagase

Masaya Nakamori

Ayame Misaki

Misako Ozaki

Tatsuya Fuji

Kitabayashi

Kazuko Shirakawa

Yasuko Ozaki

Misuzu Kanno

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Synopsis

Misako is a passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori, an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. Misako soon discovers Nakamori's photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Together, they will learn to see the radiant world that was invisible to her eyes.

Director: Naomi Kawase
Producer: Masa Sawada, Naoya Kinoshita, Yumiko Takebe
Screenwriter: Naomi Kawase
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Kino Films, Kumie, Inc., Comme des Cinémas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 14, 2018
Runtime: 1h 41m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)