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Noriko's Dinner Table

Noriko no shokutaku (Noriko's Dinner Table)

2005

Sion Sono

Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yoshitaka ...

6.4

292

Drama. Horror A sequel to 2002's cult-status film "Suicide Club", director Sion Sono's "Noriko's Dinner Table" tells the compelling and profound tale of the collapse and reconstruction of the family unit. The story follows Noriko, a seemingly unhappy teenager who lives with her mother, father, and younger sister. To escape reality, Noriko begins to regularly visit the internet site Haikyo.com, a BBS where she begins to chat with other girls just like her. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz The New York Times	"This 159-minute feature doesn’t quite cohere (...) Still, the movie is worth seeing, if only to experience a small story with impossibly grand ambitions."	NEU
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"The result is a bravura, high-risk work that raises an array of provocative questions about parent-child relationships"	POS
United States	Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader	"[It has an] intriguing premise (...) but the different narrative perspectives [the director] establishes in his five chapters fail to coalesce dramatically at the end."	NEU
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"The puzzle doesn't quite form a complete picture by the end, which may leave genre fans frustrated but the arthouse crowd intrigued."	NEU
United States	Scott Beggs Film School Rejects	"What’s brilliant about 'Noriko’s Dinner Table' is its ability to concern the audience with deeper questions by using psychotic characters and blood lust"	POS

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