2022 · fantasy · adventure · coming-of-age
Drifting Home
Directed by Hiroyasu Ishida2h 1m2022
One fateful summer, a group of elementary school kids set adrift on an abandoned apartment building must look within themselves to find a way back home.
Our read: Drifting Home (2022) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive fantasy · adventure · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- inventive
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