SummaryThree contemporary stories inspired by the everlasting emotions expressed by the precious dolls of Bunraku theater. Three stories delicately intertwined by the beauty of sadness. Three stories of undying love. (Palm Pictures)
Directed By:Takeshi Kitano
Written By:Takeshi Kitano
Dolls
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Generally Favorable
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81% Positive
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The overall mood is stately and melancholy, the selective use of color is ravishing, and some of the natural views are breathtaking.
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The cinematography is stunning, particularly where Matsumoto and Sawoko walk through the four seasons of life.
75
Dolls is an art film, and a languid, inexplicably haunting one at that.
75
Lush and poetic, Dolls proves once again that Kitano is one of the world's most original filmmakers.
70
With some staggeringly beautiful photography of cherry blossoms and scarlet autumn leaves, Dolls is so enthralled with its own cinematography that it can't bear to edit itself, and during the autumn and winter segments of the bound beggars' journey, it almost reaches a standstill.
60
Whether this measured exercise in romantic melancholy moves you to tears or bores you to them is probably a matter of personal susceptibility to the sting of bitter regret for love lost.
40
Dolls soon becomes overloaded with symbolism, and consequently suffocates the audience.
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