Like Father, Like Son

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Movie
German title Like Father, Like Son
Original title そ し て 父 に な る
Soshite Chichi ni Naru
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2013
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Hirokazu Koreeda
script Hirokazu Koreeda
production Kaoru Matsuzaki ,
Hijiri Taguchi
music Shin Yasui
camera Mikiya Takimoto
cut Hirokazu Koreeda
occupation

Like Father, Like Son ( Japanese そ し て 父 に な る , Soshite Chichi ni Naru ) is a 2013 Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda . The film competed for the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival , where it received the jury's prize and a recommendation from the ecumenical jury . It was also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and won both the Rogers People's Choice Award in Vancouver and the Wuaki.TV Audience Award in San Sebastian . The film opened in German cinemas on September 25, 2014.

action

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman who gets so fixated on his job that he neglects his wife Midori and son Keita. The family is wealthy and enjoys all privileges. One day when Ryota comes home, Midori tells him that the hospital where Keita was born is urgently requesting a meeting. There they learn that Keita was swapped when he was born, which is confirmed by a DNA test.

They meet with the other couple, Yukari and Yudai Saiki, simple people who run a small business in a suburb and otherwise live materially simply. They exchange photos so that Ryota and Midori see their biological son, Ryusei, for the first time. After a few meetings and an exchange of experiments, they decide to keep their birth sons with them permanently. However, the parents struggle internally with the loss, and the two boys are completely emotionalized, so that Ryusei ultimately runs away into his old home.

After Ryusei is back with Ryota and Midori, they begin to grow closer together. However, when Ryota views pictures on his camera, he finds some photos that Keita took of him while he was sleeping. He collapses crying and realizes that he hasn't given Keita enough time. He goes to see Keita, but Keita runs away from him. Ryota apologizes for his omissions and returns to the Saiki family with Keita.

criticism

The film received mostly positive reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , 87% of reviews are positive, out of a total of 90 reviews; the average rating is 7.6 / 10. The critical consensus states: "With a sensitive script, skillful direction and powerful acting, Like Father, Like Son uses elements that seem familiar to tell a thought-provoking story." At Metacritic , the film receives a rating of 73/100, based on 33 Reviews. Andrew Chan, writer of the Film Critics Circle of Australia, writes, “Basically, Like Father, Like Son is one of those rare and engaging films that are thoroughly deep, utterly moving, and extremely refreshing. Measured against the standard for perfect cinema, this film comes pretty close. "

On The American Spectator website, Eve Tushnet says the film brings together “some of Koreeda's distinctive trademarks: the extraordinary acting of children; the symmetrical framing and the musical narrative style ”as well as“ the change between normal recordings, in which the people would be tiny, and recordings from a child's perspective, in which the people would appear huge ”. The film service describes the film as “a demanding, gripping drama about parenthood and family ties that, despite its harrowing premise, avoids dramatic exacerbations” and advances the plot “both powerfully and gently”. The “different characters and contrasting life plans of the families” would again and again ensure “quiet humor”.

Remake

After the film caught Steven Spielberg's attention in Cannes , DreamWorks secured the rights to a remake. The directors are Chris and Paul Weitz .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Like Father, Like Son . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 124 K).
  2. ↑ 2013 Official Selection . Cannes International Film Festival . April 19, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ Awards 2013: Competition . Cannes International Film Festival. May 26, 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  4. ^ John Hopewell: Cannes: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' Wins Fipresci Prize . In: Variety , May 26, 2013. 
  5. ↑ Toronto film festival 2013: the full line-up . In: The Guardian . Retrieved March 6, 2014. 
  6. ^ Raymond Tomlin: VIFF 2013: Award Winners Announced for 2013 Film Festival . VanRamblings. October 12, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed September 28, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Like Father, Like Son (2014) . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved July 17, 2015: "Sensitively written, smartly directed, and powerfully performed, Like Father, Like Son uses familiar-seeming elements to tell a thought-provoking story."
  9. ↑ Like Father, Like Son . In: Metacritic . Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  10. ↑ Andrew Chan: HKAFF: Like Father, Like Son 誰 調換 了 我 的 父親 そ し て 父 に な る (2013) - Japan . HK Neo Reviews. November 14, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2014: “Essentially, Like Father, Like Son is one of those rare films that keep the audience totally engaged, thoroughly profound, fully emoted and ultimately refreshing. In the scale of perfect cinema, this stands quite close. "
  11. ↑ Eve Tushnet: Rich Dad, Poor Dad . The American Spectator. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 25, 2014: “[…] has some of the striking Koreeda trademarks: the extraordinary acting from the children; the symmetrical framing and musical pacing; and the shifts between long shots in which all the people look tiny and child's-eye shots where all the people look huge. " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spectator.org
  12. ↑ Michael Ranze: Like Father, Like Son. Filmdienst , 20/2014, accessed on September 28, 2015 (short review ).
  13. ^ Gavin J. Blair: DreamWorks to Remake Japanese Cannes Jury Prize Winner 'Like Father, Like Son' . The Hollywood Reporter . September 30th, 2013.
  14. ↑ Dave McNary: DreamWorks Taps 'American Pie's' Weitz Brothers for 'Like Father, Like Son' Remake . Retrieved July 3, 2014.