Word: hashiguchi
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...Ryosuke Hashiguchi's Hush! quietly made its way to Cannes last year, but it may yet do brisk box office around Asia. Think of it as a reworking of Madonna's The Next Best Thing, only better: this version swaps tack for tact. Hashiguchi, the Japanese director of many gay-themed films, doesn't play the camp for lame laughs but to showcase family values...
...sequence. The three characters' families gather in Katsuhiro's living room for a confrontation over his relationship with Asako. The nine relatives in the room, framed together like a painting, each get to voice their concerns, prejudices and, in Asako's case, undying love (for both men). Hashiguchi's passive, distant lens is the perfect partner for their very active dysfunction. Hush! is felicitously titled. Wry and endearing, it makes the right noises but doesn't shout about...
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