VENICE –
Hirokazu Koreeda’s “Look Back” acquired greater than 12 minutes of applause following its official screening on the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Italy.
The movie, entered within the pageant’s essential competitors, was screened on September 7 within the presence of Koreeda and forged members Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita, Fuuri Nanase and Rikka Okada, who had been greeted with the prolonged ovation.
“Look Back” relies on the manga of the identical identify by Tatsuki Fujimoto, greatest generally known as the creator of “Chainsaw Man.”
The story facilities on Fujino and Kyomoto, two women whose lives develop into carefully related via their shared ardour for drawing manga. Fujino is a assured elementary faculty scholar whose four-panel comics are commonly revealed within the faculty newspaper, incomes reward from her classmates and strengthening her perception in her personal expertise.
Her confidence is shaken when Kyomoto, a classmate who hardly ever attends faculty, begins contributing her personal drawings to the newspaper. Kyomoto’s paintings is significantly extra completed, prompting Fujino to dedicate herself intensely to enhancing her abilities. What begins as rivalry steadily develops into admiration and, finally, friendship.
The two lastly meet when Fujino is requested to ship Kyomoto’s commencement certificates. Despite Kyomoto’s withdrawn nature, the women shortly bond over manga and start creating works collectively, with Fujino writing the tales and Kyomoto offering a lot of the detailed paintings.
As they get older, their collaboration turns into more and more severe, and their manga begins attracting consideration. The pair share the joy of seeing their work revealed and begin imagining futures as skilled artists.
Their paths finally start to diverge. Fujino continues pursuing manga professionally, whereas Kyomoto decides she desires to develop her inventive skills additional and attend artwork faculty. The determination locations distance between them after years of working towards the identical aim.
The story then takes a tragic flip that forces Fujino to confront grief, remorse and questions concerning the decisions that introduced the 2 collectively. She seems again on their friendship and wonders how their lives may need unfolded in a different way, whereas additionally confronting the which means that drawing and creating artwork have given her.
Blending a coming-of-age story with themes of friendship, inventive ambition, loss and the unpredictable penalties of seemingly small selections, “Look Back” examines each the enjoyment and emotional price of dedicating one’s life to inventive work. At its heart is the bond between two younger artists whose shared love of manga shapes the course of each their lives.