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Based on a book by Banana Yoshimoto. The international title is Kitchen(by which it was impossible to find on listal).
The story centeres around three people: a young male hairdresser, Louie, who lives with his transsexual mother Emma and the orphaned Aggie whom they shelter after she lost her grandmother. There is a slowly developing romance between Louie and Aggie, but more on a platonic level. At the same time the history of the characters, most interesting that of the mother unravel trhough conversations.
I watched this in 1998 in a small indie cinema with my new girlfriend and was impressed by the visual style and atmospheric mood. Unfortunately I can't remember much of the story, but there are a few images that got burned into my mind, transparent umbrellas at a rainy funeral and the full moon being reflected in a big kitchen knife that Aggie picks up.
