Claire Denis has called her 35 Shots of Rum—for our money, one of the supreme accomplishments of 21st-century cinema—a homage to the films of Yasujirō Ozu, his Late Spring in particular, and indeed both observe, with exquisite delicacy, the relationships between single fathers and daughters preparing to leave home: Alex Descas and Mati Diop in Denis’s film; Chishū Ryū and Setsuko Hara in Ozu’s. Two films of lovingly observed domestic ritual and discreet tenderness, together at last for Father’s Day.
