This Valentine's Day, you won't find a film more poetic, haunting and heartbreaking than
Without Knowing Us
, a delicate and sensual adaptation in today's London of the short story
Presences of a Summer
by Japanese director Taichi Yamada.
An unclassifiable tale of romance, transcendence and ghosts.
A screenwriter in search of inspiration, Adam lives in a modern tower with unoccupied apartments.
One night, he meets Harry in the elevator, a neighbor who invites him to his house.
The two men like each other but Adam doesn't dare take the plunge.
Shaken by this encounter which breaks the monotony, Adam returns to the suburbs where he grew up before a car accident took his parents away, three decades ago.
There, he discovers, astounded, that his parents are alive and well, still in their thirties.
In their presence, and that of Harry, Adam finds unprecedented comfort.
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To the horror that infused Yamada's tale, British director Andrew Haigh, already noticed with
45 Years
, prefers surrealism...
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