2020 · drama · family · adoption
True Mothers
Directed by Naomi Kawase2h 20m2020
After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.
Our read: True Mothers (2020) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · family · adoption entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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