A middle-aged man comes to the coast in search of some place to die. But that beach was a gay beach. There, the man meets a gay young man for a reason...
More splish than "Splash," the movie wants to be a modern-day fairy tale - yet another mer-myth rippling in the wake of "The Shape of Water" - but remains frustratingly ambiguous...
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Mark Schilling
RTJapan TimesJun 6, 2018
The evocative - if frustratingly diffuse - "The Man from the Sea," Fukada takes this internationalism several steps further.