- Starring: Noriko Shinohara, Ushio Shinohara
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Summary:
This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing”
painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role of assistant to her
overbearing husband, Noriko seeks an identity of her own.
- Director: Zachary Heinzerling
- Genre(s): Documentary
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 22
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100Heinzerling's beautifully shot, painfully intimate look at the aging couple's struggle to survive amid personal and financial strain is both heartbreaking and intricately profound. This is a story about creative desire so strong it hurts.
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100Zachary Heinzerling's feature-length documentary gathers force slowly, but with such wisdom and calm mastery that I found myself stunned, toward the end, by the beautiful vastness of it all.
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100For all of the eccentricities that come in any telling of an artist's life, Cutie and the Boxer's real magic is in so beautifully telling a familiar story of husbands and wives.
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88The friction between a couple of still-struggling artists sounds rather depressing, but in fact the film is often funny; it shows that love is present in even the couple’s harshest exchanges.
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Apr 21, 201380Zachary Heinzerling's five-years-in-the-making portrait of Brooklyn-based artists Ushio and Noriko Shinohara is a warts-and-all portrait of love, sacrifice and the creative spirit.
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75This elegant movie never reduces or diminishes its subjects, and leaves us to ponder a remarkable truth - that Ushio and Noriko have an abiding love that four decades of frustration, resentment and rivalry have battered but not extinguished.
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58Their 40-year marriage seems like more of a trial than this overweening, lightly likable movie acknowledges.
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