
After One Flat-Out Flop This Year, Hirokazu Kore-eda Only Manages to Be Slightly Less Disappointing
After One Flat-Out Flop This Year, Hirokazu Kore-eda Only Manages to Be Slightly Less Disappointing
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s live-action Look Back, by merely copying its source material without genuine cinematic adaptation and relying on stiff performances and forced sentimentality, proves a mediocre work that falls far short of Lee Chang-dong’s The Possible Love and further reveals the Palme d’Or-winning director’s creative decline.



