The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
It’s a dreamy, unexpectedly rigorous debut that starts frustratingly slowly but ends with an emotional bang.
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Japan · 2019
2h 17m
Director Joe Odagiri
Starring Akira Emoto, Ririka Kawashima, Nijiro Murakami, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Genre Drama
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Toichi is a boatman who ferries villagers to a town on the other side of a river, but his livelihood is being threatened by the creation of a bridge upstream. While unsure of his future, he must also deal with caring for a young girl he rescued from the river.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
It’s a dreamy, unexpectedly rigorous debut that starts frustratingly slowly but ends with an emotional bang.
Odagiri doesn’t give us many answers. They Say Nothing Stays the Same is enigmatic and, in some ways, frustratingly elusive, yet also affecting.
The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
The landscape can go only so far in expressing Toichi’s mind-set, and the movie turns hokey when it dramatizes Toichi’s inner thoughts.
They Say Nothing Stays the Same is a melodramatic, stately and beautiful Japanese period piece.
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