2008 · comedy · drama
Achilles and the Tortoise
Directed by Takeshi Kitano2h 0m2008
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
Our read: Achilles and the Tortoise (2008) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
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