Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.
Chronicle is a 2012 American film directed by Josh Trank and written by Max Landis based on a story conceived by the two. Often described as a found footage film, blending with superhero, science fiction, and psychological thriller genres, it follows three Seattle high school seniors, bullied Andrew, his cousin Matt, and more popular Steve, who form a bond after gaining telekinetic powers from an unknown object and using them for fun, until Andrew begins going down a darker path.
