Review: Nature and human nature mingle in the beguiling ‘Evil Does Not Exist’
The films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi unspool with elegant everyday ease and yet anything can happen. Lives take sudden detours. Seemingly minor characters become primary ones. People are brought together by mysterious connections. There are even, as in the case of his “Asako I & II,” doppelgangers. Soberly naturalistic as Hamaguchi’s movies are, they’re among the … Read more
