A Pale View of Hills

Cannes Film Festival | BFI London Film Festival

Based on Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel and set in 1980s England and post-war Japan, A Pale View of Hills follows Niki, a young journalist desperate to understand her mum’s history before her birth in 1950s Nagasaki.  

Spanning two timelines, and lightly excavating the author’s own family history and cultural heritage, this is an elegant, moving and hopeful account of the generational impact of war.  

“Potent” (The Upcoming)

“Thought-provoking meditation on memory, regretting and letting go” (Loud and Clear)