After the Storm's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
Hirokazu Kore-eda only makes good movies, but this tender, accessible drama is one of his very best.
Variety
Such is the finesse of Kore-eda?s script that it builds to neither the vehement confrontation nor the comforting reconciliation that melodrama decrees. Instead, it imparts those rare, liberating moments when characters revert to their most honest selves and pluck up the courage to express their deepest, albeit unattainable wishes.
Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
There is in Koreeda's recent film a constant concern for the emotional wounds that a divorce, separation or unstable parenthood can produce in children
El Periódico
Kore-eda continues to talk about [...] problematic family relations with that serene and well-identifiable style, but at the same time with a somewhat more comfortable tone than in previous works
El País
The final stretch of the film sublimates [...] what its development has been sedimenting with great delicacy: a serene vital wisdom.
The Hollywood Reporter
"A little gem (...) As sweet as a ripe cherry at first glance, it has a rocky pit, as viewers who bite deeply will find out."
The Telegraph
" 'After the Storm is a family drama of supreme subtlety (...) No filmmaker today is watching ordinary human life more closely than Kore-eda, or is more unfailingly generous with what they find."
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote