Dolls Reviews

Back in the 90's, I used to be a huge fan of Takeshi Kitano and I ended up watching 9 of his movies. I have to admit that, nowadays, I don't follow much his work anymore but it doesn't seem that I'm missing much. Anyway, this flick was one of the last features directed by Kitano that I had the pleasure to watch. Indeed, since his reputation was growing exponentially abroad, Kitano went to the USA to direct ‘Brother’ which turned out to be decent but still not really amazing. For this follow-up, he was back in Japan to make this feature which would be easily his most poetic movie. Compared to ‘Brother’ which was his least interesting movie but easily to swallow, this one was probably his least accessible one for the mainstream audience but I really enjoyed it a lot. This time, he also decided to give us 3 different stories and while I’m usually not really fan of this approach, I thought it worked fine here. Basically, you get 3 love stories, all filled with symbolism, and it was quite spellbinding to behold. To conclude, I really enjoyed this movie a lot and I think it is really worth a look, especially if you are interested in Takeshi Kitano’s  work.