Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Umimachi Diary,” or Our Little Sister, is a slow, poetic look at time passing.
Though the film may not excite viewers like George Miller’s Mad Max Fury Road, Kore-eda’s story of three sisters is still in competition at Cannes.
The film “Umimachi Diary” tells the story of three sisters and their half-sister in Japan and echoes the work of the late Yasujiro Ozu.
The sisters living in the old city of Kamakura travel to the funeral of their estranged father and invite their younger half-sister to live with them.
Kore-eda will be in fierce competition this year with a director he looks up to; Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao Hsien is presenting “The Assassin” at Cannes.
