This review focuses on the Japanese film that came out this year, not to be confused with the 2012 French movie sharing the same title about the famous painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The story and the filmmaking approach definitely pay homage to Renoir, as writer/director Chie Hayakawa uses an "impressionistic" style, weaving together small, seemingly unrelated …
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FlixChatter Review: RENTAL FAMILY (2025) – Brendan Fraser is marvelous in a touching & funny fish-out-of-water tale in modern Japan
One of my top three picks from this year’s TCFF is easily Rental Family. My husband and I are hoping to finally make a trip to Japan next year, God willing, so Japan has been on my mind a lot lately. That’s why I was really looking forward to this film, directed by Hikari (whose …
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