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Dolls

2002

Takeshi Kitano

Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara ...

7.2

9,399

Drama. Romance DOLLS comprises three touching stories of true love, directed by Takeshi Kitano. The first installment tells the story of a career-driven man who gives up his girlfriend in favour of his job. She attempts suicide and he returns to her, and they roam the country together in search of whatever it is they have lost. The second story also concerns abandonment in favour of success. The man in question returns to the park where they met 30 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[I] isn't a film for everybody (...) but Kitano does succeed, I think, in drawing us into his tempo and his world, and slowing us down into the sadness of his characters (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"A work both rigorously stylized and deeply personal (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Kitano knows that there's little to be said when pictures can do the talking."	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Using art and violence as contrast and moral barometer, Kitano is great at examining and breaking down cultural and sexual boundaries (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Takeshi Kitano's melancholy allegory is a meditation on the heavy ties that bind, of which love is merely one and not necessarily the strongest."	POS

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