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‘Great Absence’ Review: A Son Discovers his Father in a Deft, Complex, Wrenching Dementia Drama 

The belief that the dead live on in our memories is often the only comfort anyone can think to offer the bereaved, or those in the process of losing a loved one. But for Takashi (Mirai Moriyama), the introspective adult son at the heart of Kei Chika-ura’s quietly tectonic heartbreaker, that comfort is unavailable on […]