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Norwegian Wood Reviews
Like its source material from Haruki Murakami, this is a beautiful film that exquisitely captures grief and sadness, and unsurprisingly, it probably won't help you if you're suffering from seasonal affective disorder.
| Original Score: B | Aug 15, 2013
The acting in the film is key. Every moment by Ken'ichi Matsuyama as Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi as Naoko is valid yet seems distilled by memory rather than presented raw.
| Jun 19, 2013
We cover years at a bound, but when we light, we tend to spend long, lingering moments through the camera's loving eye. This is a beautiful film to see.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 15, 2012
Tran has drained the life right out of the novel.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 2, 2012
It becomes a film that, like its characters, remains elusive in its motivations and therefore detached from its audience.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 1, 2012
A master of mood and visuals, Tran proves an inspired choice.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 2, 2012
There are sequences and situations I found myself floating into the celluloid.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 27, 2012
It's sweet all the way up, wavers in dread and slides down to doom.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 19, 2012
This lush, eventually torpid adaptation of Haruki Murakami's more nuanced 1987 cult-favorite novel considers youthful love, loss, and eros...
| Original Score: B- | Jan 12, 2012
A visually stunning and moving piece of storytelling bolstered by searing performances and a standout score by Jonny Greenwood.
| Jan 6, 2012
Maybe this was the project Tran has been waiting for. I rate this the best film of his non-prolific career by far.
| Jan 6, 2012
It takes no significant liberties with the plot, and it captures the novel's delicate, half-hopeful, half-mournful tone. So why, unlike its source material, does it feel only half-alive?
| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 6, 2012
"Norwegian Wood" is a restrained portrait of liminal moments, a coming-of-age tale that feels more like a moody ghost story than a neatly contained chronicle of beginnings.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 6, 2012
Even for a film set in a land that considers paper folding an exciting activity, this is dull stuff.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 6, 2012
While this beautiful-looking film at times succeeds in capturing its source material's delicate emo spirit, it's far less attentive to the richness of Murakami's characters.
| Jan 5, 2012
The truth is knotty in Norwegian Wood, deftly adapted by Franco-Vietnamese writer-director Tran Anh Hung from Haruki Murakami's most popular novel.
| Jan 5, 2012
"Norwegian Wood" registers less as a coherent narrative than as a tortuous reverie steeped in mournful yearning.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2012
Tran seems to realize that the best a filmmaker can do under these circumstances may be to substitute visual for linguistic beauty. And he has created stunning tableaux, before which the saddest of stories unfolds.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2012
The film is perilously close to being an exercise in tactile but touchy-feely passive-aggression.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 4, 2012