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Critics Consensus: Sweet Bean's deliberate pace demands patience, but the satisfying simplicity of its story -- and Kirin Kiki's absorbing performance -- yield an array of riches well worth the wait.
Critic Consensus: Sweet Bean's deliberate pace demands patience, but the satisfying simplicity of its story -- and Kirin Kiki's absorbing performance -- yield an array of riches well worth the wait.
All Critics (53) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (9)
Its sentimentality is tempered by the elegant restraint of the fine lead performances.
Ms. Kawase's sweet, slow film -- very slow, I'm obliged to say -- becomes a meditation on solitary lives lived at the margins of society; on old age, and on the urgency of telling our stories, which may sometimes include recipes.
Ultimately Kawase is more interested in charting emotional and sensory landscapes than in thinking through any narrative thread, yet there's something to be said for the movie's sincerity and simple beauty.
Kawase handles the material delicately and skillfully, and Kirin - a one-time ingenue actress whose first important film was in one of the early "Tora-san" movies - hits all the right notes.
A delicate little fable that creeps up on you. It seems slight at first, but it's held together by a performance from the veteran actress Kirin Kiki
The movie, beautifully shot and acted, earns its ultimate sense of hope by confronting real heartbreak head-on, and with compassion.
Soft, gentle, and kind ... until it knocks you down on the ground and guts you like a fish. Despite what some may say, "Sweet Bean" is far from saccharine schlock.
In short, the essence of a director's cinema with its own label and universe, such as Naomi Kawase. [Full Review in Spanish]
In short, a warm film, with sensitive characters, without bombastic exclamations. [Full review in Spanish]
Kawase doesn't require firecrackers or tragedy to keep audiences mesmerized over a story that may seem to be light. [Full Review in Spanish]
Prolific Japanese director, Naomi Kawase, constructs a beautiful and sensible tragicomedy that reaches a limited, but welcome experience. [Full Review in Spanish]
Once we've seen the blossoms and admired them, seeing them again is less thrilling - and so is the overall impression left by An.
Lovely movie. Quite sad by the end, but also very moving with flawed but engaging characters. I loved the scenes with the Sakura too.
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