The filmmaker’s latest feature, “I’ll Be Your Mirror” ( originally titled “Blood” ), follows a widow (Carla Juri) who travels to Japan on a business trip. While there, she reconnects with an old friend and reconnects with her lost joie de vivre. The feature debuted at Sundance in 2022.
The official synopsis reads: Chloe (Juri) travels to Japan for work where she is welcomed by an old friend, Toshi (Takashi Ueno). Sliding between the melancholy of the loss of her husband and the awe of perspectives changed, Chloe wanders an unfamiliar landscape.
Issey Ogata, Sachiko Ohshima, and Futaba Okazaki also star.
The IndieWire review for “I’ll Be Your Mirror” cited how as a “patient and observant film,” the feature still “illuminates more brightly amid its overall mundanity.” The review further applauded Juri’s performance as a “marvel of coiled emotion and wide-eyed wonder.”
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