0.5mm (2014)

Ando's quiet and vulnerable exploration of the loneliness of later years is thoughtful, caring, funny, and sincere all at once. Momoko Ando displays the elderly as they are; struggling souls who have to navigate their unrelenting loneliness amid their declining mental and physical states.

Sawa's circumstances force her to breach that 0.5mm needed to bridge the distance of connection, making her this figure of goodwill that forces herself into these people's lives, providing closure and allowing them to move out of this confusion and haze of their final few chapters of life.

0.5mm is unrelentingly human, unapologetic and unwavering in its hope for people's love for one another

Originally posted on Letterboxd on 29th September, 2023