The distance that Koreeda knows to keep between the subtlety of his humor and the crudeness of the motives he addresses makes it a beautiful pièce de résistance. [Full review in Spanish]
Instead of reaching out and dragging us into his films, [Hirokazu] Koreeda allows us enough space to approach situations that resist melodramatic overstatement. Slowly and deftly, he entangles us in the lives of his characters.
The film uses a generalized minor tone almost negligible for its investigation of the various emotional colors of the contemporary Japanese family in conflict. [Full review in Spanish]
For a film filled with broken promises, dead dreams, conniving duplicity and desperation, "After the Storm" has a surprisingly light touch and odd charm.
The director keeps his characters and audience bobbing together over waters that grow deeper and deeper, until it's impossible to distinguish the everyday from the profound.
The transparency goes very well with the film, the gesture of entrusting all communication to the dialogues between their characters, but also to the relationship between the bodies of their actors and the spaces they occupy. [Full review in Spanish]
The map that Koreeda presents is exposed with solvency: it obtains empathy and closeness with its characters without making strong judgments. [Full review in Spanish]