Last Life in the Universe

Librarians, angry siblings and yakuza, oh my! Director Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s lyrical, offbeat romantic fable about a shy Japanese man (Tadanobu Asano) and the Thai girl of his dreams features some of cinematographer Christopher Doyle’s best work, a dreamy score and cinema enfant terrible Takashi Miike playing a stoic hit man. In other words, just about everything you want out of a movie.