Cottontail
Whoosh, Patrick Dickinson’s film Cottontail rushes into the territory generally occupied by Hirokazu Kore-eda. That is, the deceptively simple, beautifully crafted, sensitively acted, tender human drama. He’s even given it a Japanese top coat, since it’s the story of an emotionally inert Tokyo dad whose wife has just died heading to Lake Windermere in the the UK’s Lake District to scatter his wife’s ashes, as per her dying wish. Along for the journey is the son Kenzaburo can barely communicate with, plus son Toshi’s wife and daughter. Kenzaburo didn’t want any of them to come, but those were Toshi’s mother’s dying wishes. Toshi is there for her sake not dad’s. It’s clearly a … Read more