Name that movie - please.
January 21, 2006 4:02 PM   Subscribe

Stupid question: recent movie (last year or so) 4 kids are homeless? Without parents? Bringing themselves up? What is it?
posted by leafwoman to Media & Arts (13 answers total)
 
Best answer: Nobody Knows?
posted by Espy Gillespie at 4:04 PM on January 21, 2006


Here's a Quicktime Trailer. Just saw this. Worth watching.
posted by rafter at 4:10 PM on January 21, 2006


Great movie.
posted by billysumday at 4:19 PM on January 21, 2006


Wonderful images on that trailer, but for God's sake, could the voiceover have been any more insulting to the intelligence? Who writes that shit?

Sorry, I had to vent.
posted by godawful at 4:46 PM on January 21, 2006


Response by poster: Thanks all.
posted by leafwoman at 5:08 PM on January 21, 2006


The director, Kore-Ada, is also great. If you liked him, you should see After Life and Maborosi, if you already haven't.
posted by Falconetti at 6:01 PM on January 21, 2006


Sorry, I had to vent.

Agreed. Don't take that as any indication of the film, which is a world different than you'd expect given the voiceover.
posted by rafter at 6:18 PM on January 21, 2006


Can't speak to this film, but After Life was fantastic, so there's something in its favor...
posted by BT at 8:22 PM on January 21, 2006


Nobody Knows was very slow moving, touching, but almost painfully stuck-in-a-vat-of-paste slow. Artful, fun, heartbreaking, but still, vat of paste. It's worth watching, but don't forget where your fast-forward button is.
posted by cior at 7:48 AM on January 22, 2006


I *loved* After Life. It was also slow, but slow in the sense that you never wanted it to end.. the speed was comforting in that film. Then again, given the storyline I'm not surprised I didn't want it to end.
posted by cior at 7:49 AM on January 22, 2006


Since, we've answered the question and moved onto movie reviews: unlike clor, I found that despite its slowness, Nobody Knows didn't bore me (and I was really tired when we went), though slow movies often do. I can't recommend it enough.
posted by dame at 11:33 AM on January 22, 2006


here's kore-eda's next movie: www.shochiku.co.jp/hanayorimonao/
posted by suni at 3:28 PM on January 22, 2006


'Nobody Knows' didn't bore me, either; but that assessment's a long way from "I can't recommend it enough." This film could easily be avoided, IMO.
posted by Rash at 9:54 AM on January 23, 2006


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