2024 · drama · comedy
A Missing Part
Directed by Guillaume Senez1h 38m2024
Every day, Jay travels the length and breadth of Tokyo in his taxi, looking for his daughter Lily. In the 9 years since he has separated from his wife, he has never been able to get custody of his daughter. Having given up hope of ever seeing her again, he is about to move back to France when Lily hops in his cab. But she doesn't recognize him.
Our read: A Missing Part (2024) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
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