Tokyo Sonata (tiff) started off quietly, built slowly through the middle, came to this crashing crescendo and then quietly wrapped up with a sonata within a sonata. By turns funny, tragic, frustrating and mundane, this film had me and lost me multiple times.

It wasn’t until I walked out of the theatre that I realized this is exactly what any sonata would do to me…grab me during the allegro or presto, lose me to boredom during the andante or adagio, gain back my interest as it picked up speed once again and then tie it all together at the close. Now that’s meta.

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