This ambiguous, saddening meditation on grief, loss and recovery is filmmaker Hirozaku Kore-eda's third prominent feature after Mabaroshi and Afterlife; his latest, Nobody Knows, played recently to New Zealand Film Festival audiences. Not too dissimilar from Shinji Aoyama's equally moving and slightly more pronounced Eureka, the "distance" in this film is one of dislocation, much more so than that other Sophia Coppola movie, and unintentionally presents a sort of an internalised reflection on sudden and unexpected tragedy, ostensibly in relation to 9/11.