free films very very quickly but they're all interesting films and we hope you'll have a chance to see them before they leave town or if not then later on d v d the first film that we're going to discuss is a japanese film called our little sister as carol will do this family yes very quickly because we don't have much time as you said this is a japanese film it's about three adult sisters who their father left the family when they were very young but they've just learned that he died so they all go to his funeral and at the funeral they learn that they have a half sister thirteen or fourteen year old girl who is pretty much orphaned at this point so they sort of adopt her they say why don't you come back and live with us because the stepmother this was the daughter of the second wife so the third wife doesn't want her so the three girls who live in the house that they have their family house they invite her back to live with em well i was very reminded in this movie of another movie that this director made about three children who were abandoned by what actually was more the venue i think was abandoned by their very flighty mother and left to make a home for themselves and their younger much younger than this group of children but the issues disagree yeah i think there are perhaps four wheeling emotions underneath but you don't we don't see them everything's very calm things are the food is very important especially traditional food so they constantly are making the family seem like a family because as you said or you said carol the father had left them and the mother had sort of learned you learned maybe more than halfway through the film that the mother had left them when they were children as well right and they maybe had their grandmother it's not entirely clear yes i think a mother and mother boy so upset by her husband's leaving her that she left all she left and and left them to be raised and i'm going around speaking of the calm dramatized here the drama is what's underneath what you don't see and i think the movie subtly reveals what's underneath you know for a law long time you think well nothing's going to happen in this film i don't know which never bothers me because it's a beautiful film and the little interactions there are current are interesting to me so i didn't i didn't have much problem with the lack of drama as such but you live you learn if the movie goes on what the conflicts are what the problems are these are people who do have problems but they don't make a big deal out of that i've heard that you know japanese society is a little like british little sorority sort of how's being that they've been going along with for so long is is going to change their relationship changes in this day start to make decisions about know my father made this dish for me that they connected to someone that they've lost and usually what this what this does she hasn't they're always talking about food and they're always eating it's a huge part of this movie one of the things i thought of as i was watching a movie is that this young girl the fifteen year old had her father at a time when these other girls did not yet they had him when she did not so the memories of the father are totally different yes yes so i think i was feeling like lord that that that the pulse of the movie was that they were getting to the point where they were accepting today and not having to rely on the memories because those were never going to align yeah i think there's more of that  besides sharing food they begin to say let's share our memories we didn't really know are either right what are your memories we'd like to get to know them a little better or when they go up to a point  highpoint looking over the king bed the village and a little younger sister says my dad always like to go to a high point and look out over the city and the very oldest sister who actually does have some memories of him says yes we we used to come here too and they both go up there and they both scream which is very odd japanese right they both will remember how much their distress right by losing their father in there be there because you left or because you die but he's apparently moved into big time hollywood now he started out as a comedian so has a very comedic touch to this remind me a little of wes anderson basically the story is there's a forester but a boy he's been in foster homes troubled kid and he's from the last straw is being foisted upon a family that lives on the edge of the bush and the mother somehow has a golden touch with this kid and she breaks him out of his shell and his ordering this and he really response but then all of a sudden when i'm up she running around trying to escape the authorities who are convinced that this old man is molesting a boy in the wilderness and he's been kidnapped and getting molested and and so they've got to contend with that me well of course the two them lord of the rings which they have where the scenery spectacular in the wilderness in new zealand this is another film about abandoned children in a way and about how he he he is coaxed out of his shell first by someone who has a golden touch when i open but then when she used we have spoke of her the men who love her that they managed to find some way of of finding themselves in and bob though again just the authority not because one of the reasons i think they're living in the bush is because they samuel character buckle heck uncle heck is a little bit of a not not i first is brought i just social services he's wearing gangsta club but he's also we should say quite obese which is very unusual for a kid in the film we don't but we you know it's people joke about it in the movie  it's a broadcom of the day rather than the stylized comedy stylized yet west anderson reference you made that occurred to me too that you know things aren't he doesn't try to make things yeah because movies and so forth and literature very much a part of this especially television i mean westerns and television well and rap and rap music and this is yeah yeah at some point and they as she's  closing in on and she and they kept capture they kid the truant officer or whatever she is social worker says you know you're going to be grilled and of course anything you say may be held against you and then of course her  that the point in the review was that this is these characters are different from other comparable films because tragedy doesn't define them they are touched by it they move on we have pain we keep going and it doesn't limit them they suffer and then limit them a limited they just will and that that was actually very uplifting throughout the whole movie this is a boy who could have been real trouble for in trouble well i think part of home harking back to a movie we discussed last week captain fantastic i think part of the reason that he had just so well is that he's in the middle of nowhere his bets a good look at that he can match himself against the wilderness against tracking through the wilderness again shooting his own food and then back something that shows him he can do stuff you've been a kid that there'd be this social worker more than one says you know he did graffiti a lot of people who go out and live in the bush well i think it's also true that there is a slight a slight serious look at how the native peoples of new zealand have been treated that they've been marginalized that they're poor that they have a lot of problems with alcoholism and illegitimacy and all these kinds of things and this is washed up a boy like this who's who's in there in the child welfare system because his society has sort of but that's another thing though then what about the did you feel that there was any political implications there is nowadays i think there was a little close one of the things of that that uncle had access at one point to the boys when the boy sa oh we have to scatter the ashes of the of the foster and in the place where her people came from up in the mountains and and and he says she didn't know where she came from she was also right and handed her child so that was like by michael birbiglia for bigley i think that's the name who is a well known comic in the new york comedy scene he did a previous film we discussed called sleepwalk with me right and this is about a six barely is the big thing and everybody else says we should put our names in would you tell them about us would you send out writing to them about baba so he sort of and he has a girlfriend in the group and he goes off and it oh i'm going to say is that kind of opens up a wound that was smore or less below the surface it was a lot of competition and a lot of envy and his departure makes them all kind of reassess where they're going to go from here  i think what it is is there at some point they say well this this means that we have we have to sort of face the fact that we have not grown up yet that now that we're in our midst thirty years and we're not successful in right and actually one of the stars that we can live so one of the hosts is lena dunham which is also very symbolic because of course that's what girls is all about it's about people thinking they were going to be on one path all of a sudden feeling again this is someone who has made it big and and is a name to conjure with where is there still there still acting like there well one of the other characters where the girlfriend who an old college not so much scripted but and they're wonderful they're funny they're so funny but their lives are not improvisational at all when he brings on any number of young women how he does he says the same line says she's getting dressed says i i'm not going to do this anymore so i feel like a whore yeah i'm doing my twenty's and you're forty she says to me since i'm thirty six and that's why god's great although we're laughing yeah i found this movie sort of bitter sad sad yeah i was yes it really was that i have you i haven't seen this movie but of course mike  was about being like on the stand up yeah circuit so now it's like when you probably he's next he may do life on saturday night i think i might be his goal you know the saturday night live skits were and they're watching and they're saying this is not funny and i think part of the reason why is based on the television show there's actually like props right and costume to me and they do everything improv is done you have to imagine that talk about this one we have we both liked him very very much carol i think you might like it but you know these people do some improv performers do something so remarkable i don't see why they don't have more they maybe they don't know where they go or they go in saturday night live or something like that actually i don't do it forever because there's no well like i saw one that became a management consultant and would give presentations to well i saw few final words you say and i for the last three minutes i really liked our little sister and i think that the japanese director he's he's directed so my favorite japanese movie is like father like son a little wish  biggest and very well there are people yeah very amusing very good i thought it stood out because the script was it was a cut above and it was actually funny or the most of these things are director i love his movies he is i guess i kind of inheritor of those well there are people i also like it was a fun time i liked it i felt the acting not necessarily the leads but some of the other people looked like they were waiting to be told ok your line i didn't think that was very smooth and also i have to say there was one scene where they're deep in the bush proposal they lost and you see one of the speech trail markers like it be you know or bitter bitter and some very sweet but but real real live here people who work together and they at some point when you're all pulling together it's beautiful right and then some little advantage comes to rehearsed the regular song ten times they'd done ten takes and then realize they didn't have the rights to