2002 · drama · romance
Dolls (Kitano)
Directed by Takeshi Kitano1h 54m2002
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
Our read: Dolls (Kitano) (2002) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- signature
- intimate
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