Consequently, the film feels both overstuffed and undernourished, as if it had either been rushed to the screen or pared down from a much more
ambitious film about love, Hawaii, space, and how we live now.
Oscar - winning filmmaker and animator Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max, Ernie Biscuit) is our guest this month, and chats to Rochelle and Lee
about some of the key
films of October 2017, including Denis Villeneuve's
ambitious sequel Blade Runner 2049 (01:12), Taika Waititi's unconventional superhero sequel Thor: Ragnarok (13:00), Terrence Malick's wistful
love story Song To Song (17:35), and George Clooney's dark comedy thriller Suburbicon (22:11).
Kinoshita's
ambitious and intensely moving
film begins as a multigenerational epic
about the military legacy of one Japanese family, before settling into an emotionally complex portrayal of parental
love during wartime.