True Mothers

Name: True Mothers
Genre: Drama
Released: January 29, 2021
Duration: 140 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Aju Makita, Arata, Hiroko Nakajima, Hiromi Nagasaku, Kokoro Morita

2021

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Film Movement | Release Date (Streaming): January 29, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Aju Makita, Arata, Hiroko Nakajima, Hiromi Nagasaku, Kokoro Morita, Ren Komai, Reo Sato, Rio Yamashita, Taketo Tanaka, Tetsu Hirahara

Summary: After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family’s orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato’sAfter a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family’s orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato’s biological mother, demanding his return. As tensions mount, Satoko grows more and more emboldened to defend her family. … Expand

Director: Naomi Kawase

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 140 min

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Robert Abele

Jan 30, 2021

In Kawase’s delicate hands, however, it breathes with an everyday poignancy. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Jan 28, 2021

An elegant, absorbing piece of storytelling. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Jan 28, 2021

Naomi Kawase’s films don’t hammer toward arbitrary plot points but flow like water, so “True Mothers” doesn’t unfold like a Hollywood blockbuster, or indeed, even most arthouse films. It courses along softly and confidently, with unexpected ebbs and estuaries. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Jan 28, 2021

The film shimmers with beauty and sadness despite its length, and the Japanese director’s background as both a photographer and a documentary filmmaker brings a gossamer naturalism to this realistic tale about a young woman’s regrets over abandoning her child years after the fact. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 1, 2021

True Mothers is a melodrama with 90 minutes of story awash in 139 minutes of movie. Kawase holds our interest by letting us see the unexpressed pain of characters generally too well-mannered to express loss, shock, outrage and resentment out loud. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jan 28, 2021

There is a sustained emotional seriousness in this movie, with committed performances. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Jan 28, 2021

Adapting Mizuki Tsujimura’s novel of the same name helps impose more of a narrative framework than is typically found in Kawase’s oeuvre, although the film’s mix of genres — from marital drama to teen romance to social commentary — don’t gel. Read full review

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