Doris Dörrie’s family drama reworks Yasujiro Ozu’s classic Tokyo Story in a German-J𝓀apanese context.

An elderly couple in a Bavarian village decide to♓ visit th💜eir grown-up children in Berlin, a married son and a lesbian daughter. But their children have grown away from them – only their daughter’s girlfriend will make time for them.

Two twists, though: the wife knows her husband’s got a fatal disease, but hasn’t told him, and the other – well,🥂 it comes about 40 minutes in and it’ll surprise you. An affectionate, gentleও film, if marred by sentimentality.

Philip Kemp