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      Vision

      2018 1h 49m Drama List
      38% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 36% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score A French woman traveling through the forests of Japan recalls the first romance of her life. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Once Upon a Time, There was a devoted hermit who lived in the woods. The sky loved this hermit very much and decided to give this hermit any wish he wanted, under one condition: the hermit should never forget his mission. In his studies of devotion, this hermit learned about a great rainbow named Maya. He fell to his knees and said "Please sky, let me know your great color!" and the sky said "As you wish. And now your mission for me is to fetch me a glass of water." The hermit looked at the sky, "Are you kidding me? A glass of water is SO easy" and the sky laughed "Yes. It is. Enjoy Maya." A water glass appeared in the hermit's hand, and he held it out in front of him as he started his journey into Maya for the first time, knowing if he always held the glass out to lead him, he would never forget the mission from the sky. Water was hard to find in Maya, though. First he found what looked to be a large lake, but he scooped the glass and it filled with sand. This happened many times as he journeyed a long ways, only finding enough water to quench his own thirst, and his glass for the sky remained empty. The hermit started to get very upset, and he was losing hope when a large farmhouse appeared. His empty glass led him to the door and he knocked on it, and the most beautiful woman appeared and he immediately fell in love. The glass dropped from his hand and shattered into a million pieces, and the farm girl swept them up, and they lived happily ever after. One year a great storm hit, and the farm was flooded. Everything the hermit had accumulated was washed away (things far too sad for this author to mention, but the spiritual texts do). The hermit stood with his empty hands out as he cried and the last of the flood washed over him. When the rain stopped, he looked at his hands and there was now a full glass of water. The hermit looked up at the sky and held up the full glass of water, "I forgot my mission!" and the sky laughed "I did not." Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Visually stunning as usual, weak script though. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Guy Lodge Variety The final result is a mixed hessian bag of Kawase's best and worst creative impulses; still, buoyed by Binoche's ever-disarming presence, it should be her most widely distributed work to date. Sep 27, 2018 Full Review Leslie Felperin Hollywood Reporter The soporific pace and twee quasi-environmentalist, semi-mystical guff about life cycles and dreams foretold will annoy some viewers. Sep 25, 2018 Full Review Ren Scateni Vague Visages What could have been an interesting take on motherly love ends up being only an airy knot difficult to untie. Sep 21, 2023 Full Review Miguel Muñoz Garnica El antepenúltimo mohicano Speeches of spiritualized sentimentality. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 55/100 Dec 20, 2019 Full Review Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse I think "Vision" had all the elements of becoming a naturalistic, art-house romantic story, but Kawase did not manage to restrict the pretentiousness quite frequently appearing in her works, at least not in the degree she did it for "Radiance" Dec 1, 2019 Full Review Jennie Kermode Eye for Film If you frequently immerse yourself in Japanese cinema, the chances are that you will love this film. If it's still exotic to you, be prepared to merely admire it. Rated: 4.5/5 Mar 1, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A French woman traveling through the forests of Japan recalls the first romance of her life.
      Director
      Naomi Kawase
      Screenwriter
      Naomi Kawase
      Production Co
      LDH Japan
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 30, 2019
      Runtime
      1h 49m