Fresh
One of those silent black-and-white old movies that makes the subsequent advances in the medium look redundant.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Overview
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.
Director and cast
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[I Was Born, But . . .] is a master class -- one of the [Ozu's] earliest -- in the art of distilling emotional intensity from quiet lives.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
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Ozu's movie is also smart at levels almost too subtle to discern, perhaps not so much smart as wise.
Dana Stevens, Slate
Fresh
Watching the first hour of I Was Born, But... (unspooling with a bright, new piano score by Donald Sosin) might remind you of a subdued Our Gang skit, and not unpleasantly.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh
The film retains a measure of tempered hope, born not simply from the father's command-cum-wish to his slumbering offspring but also from a final act of youthful compassion that binds Ozu's intensely human characters in glass-half-full solidarity.
Nick Schager, Village Voice
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