2024 · drama · art · coming-of-age
Look Back
Directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama58m2024
Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing.
Our read: Look Back (2024) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · art · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / art, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- brisk
- intense
- tender
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