THE GAME OF DESTINY AND FANTASY ”by Hamaguchi Ryūsuke distributed by Tucker Film, presented at the 71st Berlinale and distributed by Movies Inspired (release in theaters 26 August), was designated Film of the Critics by the National Union of Italian Film Critics SNCCI with the following Grounds:

Temporarily abandoning the rereading of the history of his country Three stories for three poetic investigations on the mocking sense of destiny and human relations. Universal but linked to the insecurities of contemporaneity, Hamaguchi's film confirms the talent of a storyteller in love with his characters – especially female – souls in dialogue with time, able in spite of themselves to reinvent themselves an identity, between fragments of memory and imaginative acrobatics of luck.

NDR: the original title is Guzen to sozo (Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy)