Mipo O’s “Residing in Two Worlds” is a movie with such good intentions, made with such diligence towards problems with illustration, it feels unsporting to level out that it’s additionally a trifle uninteresting. This decade-spanning story of the rising pains of a younger man (Ryo Yoshizawa) born to deaf mother and father is effectively acted and raises the bar for depictions of deafness in Japanese cinema, however in different respects it’s an archetypal message film.
It however marks a welcome return for O, whose ravishing downer drama “The Mild Shines Solely There” (2014) heralded the arrival of a serious expertise, just for her to drop off the radar after delivering a follow-up, “Being Good” (2015). In the event you’re questioning what she’s been doing since then, the reply is just that she discovered making function movies to be incompatible with the calls for of elevating two kids.
