It's not difficult to fall in love with the characters that Hirokazu Koreeda creates, nor the stunning world in which they live. Still, this is, for me, the most wonderful so far. The story is about four sisters living together and talking through the highs and lows of life, love and death. Time moves at the most staggeringly beautiful pace and wherever there is heartbreak there is solace in sisterhood. Family meals, late night conversation, the promise and charm of find out more...
In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women, many of whom project their needs onto her or try to give her life direction. She squats in an old house smoking hash with a man, falls for a Tunisian laborer and works beside him pruning grape vines, stays with a couple shepherding goats, meet find out more...