Absence

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Absence

2023

1h 40m

Drama

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

08/21/2023

Setting us adrift across his urban landscapes, in Absence Lee Kang-sheng offers a melancholic vision of dreams lost and families found.

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Lisa Nystrom

FILMINK (Australia)

02/13/2024

10.5/20

… while beautiful in its own unhurried way, struggles to sustain the feature-length runtime.

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Carlos Losilla

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

10/03/2023

Wu proceeds by splintering the plot into brief flashes that hide others, telling some things but not all, so it is up to the audience to give a final shape to the puzzle. [Full review in Spanish]

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Sean Gilman

In Review Online

04/08/2023

At every turn, Absence appears like it’s going to turn into a kind of a movie we’ve seen before... But just when we think we’re settling into some kind of romantic noir... Absence shifts once more into something much more special and original.

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Sarah Manvel

Critic's Notebook

03/18/2023

Uunfortunately all this beauty and cleverness doesn't make up for a plot which resolves none of its own central questions, and which blows the ending.

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Han Jiangyu

Li Meng

Su Hong

Ren Ke

Chen Kai

Liang Wanling

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Director: Wu Lang
Producer: Dun He
Screenwriter: Wu Lang
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Chinese
Runtime: 1h 40m