“A mesmerizing and touching approach to the radical difficulty to integrate the death of a loved-one in one’s subjectivity.”
Category: Festivals
Dynamite Graffiti (2018) review [JFFH 2019]
(A narrative that movingly) reveals the productive as well as the destructive effects a certain fantasmatic solution to the enigma of female desire can have.
Playroom (2018) review [JFFH 2019]
“Our four mavericks have (…) created an interesting and compelling omnibus.”
Blank13 (2017) Review [Japannual 2018]
A narrative that succeeds in sensibly highlighting the often forgotten importance of the funeral as symbolic event and the possibility to appreciate the human being beyond his failure as symbolic father.
Marriage Hunting Beauty (2018) [Japannual 2018]
“An enjoyable narrative, providing plenty of charming and touching moments.”
Domains (2019) review [IFFR 2019]
“Kusano is able to evokes nothing other than the very fact that one’s subjective truth is ever constructed in cyclic retro-active way.”
Japanese highlights at IFFR 2019.
While IFFR, like every year, has an amazing selection of world cinema to enjoy, we want to underline the Japanese highlights of this year.
Siblings of the Cape (2018) review [31th TIFF)
‘The narrative dares to confront the spectator with a question that is nothing other than a dilemma. ‘
Recall (2018) review [Camera Japan Festival]
“A fun, emotional and engaging narrative, but nothing more.”
Room Laundering (2018) review [Fantasia Fest]
“A subtle emotional narrative about the central question of love that bothers every neurotic subject.”
