The lingering trauma shared by two middle-class families, once friendly but now estranged following a tragic camping incident, is finally addressed through the unlikely prism of a high-school drama club production in “Between Us,” Shingo Matsumura’s well-intentioned, yet only fitfully successful, exploration of unprocessed grief. The writer-director’s fourth feature film premieres as part of the […]
‘Between Us’ Review: Estranged Teenagers Process Past Tragedy Through High School Theater in Fitfully Ambitious Japanese Drama
The lingering trauma shared by two middle-class families, once friendly but now estranged following a tragic camping incident, is finally addressed through the unlikely prism of a high-school drama club production in “Between Us,” Shingo Matsumura’s well-intentioned, yet only fitfully…
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