Chronicle of My Mother

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

• based on novel or book
• forgiveness
• dementia
• childhood trauma
• based on memoir or autobiography
• semi autobiographical
• emotionally distant
• 1950s
• caregiving
• forgetfulness
• family caregiving
• family reconciliation