Fresh
A fathomless echo chamber in which spiritual confusion and aggression keep turning into each other, and penance comes to sound like a very dark joke.
Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
Penance
God may forgive you, but she never will.
2013 · 4h 30m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Overview
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
Director and cast
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80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
In many ways, Penance plays like an object lesson in how a graceful sense of spacing and staging within the frame can overcome technical restrictions.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Fresh
Effectively unnerving on a scene-for-scene basis thanks to writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's preference for ambience over character-driven drama.
Simon Abrams, Village Voice
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