A visually elegant drama from writer-director Bradley Rust Grey, I will Be Your Mirror tells an beautiful story of grief—of the battle to reside totally once more when the tragedies of the previous nonetheless exist in your bones.
Chloe (Carla Yuri) is a quiet Swiss widow visiting Japan on enterprise, although we first study not directly of her husband’s dying. She will’t communicate Japanese, which provides her an excuse to maintain her emotions a secret and keep trapped in her personal head. Early within the movie, towards a breezy pastoral backdrop, Japanese pal Toshi (Takashi Ueno) discusses Chloe’s unhappiness in entrance of her together with her grandmother. Chloe smiles with out realizing it.
The second encapsulates the movie’s delicate dynamic, shifting between Chloe’s unstated ache (there are occasional flashbacks to her husband that bleed into the principle narrative) and the involved buddies hovering round her, each cautious of upsetting her but additionally, due to the language barrier , naturally on removing.
Cinematographer Eric Linn’s static cinematography lends a flickering poignancy to Chloe’s tense however overtly susceptible encounters; a dialog on a ferry with an older man, Yatsuro (Issei Ogata), is especially beautiful.
The movie’s twisted nature creates a specific type of intimacy with Chloe, which depends virtually solely on Yuri’s subtly heartbreaking efficiency. Chloe’s mourning is just not all the time readable, and we regularly see her engaged in mundane actions akin to purchasing, consuming, and taking part in with Toshi’s younger daughter, Futaba (Futaba Okazaki); her awkward banter with buddies is endearing, if it will get fairly boring, and her fixed open-mindedness takes a few of the energy and believability out of her growing romance with Toshi. There’s a trace of repressed feelings simmering beneath the mundane, however it would not all the time present.
I can be your mirror
Not rated. Period: 1 hour 51 minutes. Within the theaters.
