Cloud - Recenzje

...is obsessed with media-stoked alienation, and it benefits mightily from Kurosawa’s formal mastery.

Shadows lurk in the periphery, and should you catch sight of them before Yoshii does, Cloud might steal a breath from you.

...all-time bleakest episode of Only Fools and Horses.

...Kurosawa’s film searches, perhaps in vain, for where this violence within us comes from...

...it’s a reminder of Kurosawa’s remarkable skill with pacing and plotting, delivering a brisk film that leaves one pondering its themes, especially what it means to live in an era when nothing is real.

...updates the filmmaker’s signature focus for a modern world that’s enmeshed in an infinite (but invisible) network of small cruelties and bitter grievances.

...here Kurosawa finds no honor or hidden humanity in this shadowy world of petty commerce, and in doing so probes absolute isolation and solipsism.