From the shores of the Cote d’Azur to Melbourne’s back alleys, the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival (21 July – 7 August) announce 25 films from the Cannes Film Festival.
With opening night still a secret and Kriv Stenders’ Aussie tale Red Dog announced for closing night there’s a collection of great Australian films in between including; Matthew Bate’s indie-doco Shut Up Little Man!, the world premiere of Khoa Do’s Falling For Saraha, Alistair Lockhart and Patrick Sarell’s animated short Nullarbor and Ivan Sen’s Toomelah about a ten year-old boy turned drug runner in a remote Aboriginal town, which got an excellent response at Cannes.
In fact, Miff has 25 films screening from Cannes’ Competition.
Catch; Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, a mesmerising family drama in the face of the apocaplypse that saw Kirsten Dunst win Best Actress; Maiwenn Le Besco’s Polisse, revolving around officers in a...
With opening night still a secret and Kriv Stenders’ Aussie tale Red Dog announced for closing night there’s a collection of great Australian films in between including; Matthew Bate’s indie-doco Shut Up Little Man!, the world premiere of Khoa Do’s Falling For Saraha, Alistair Lockhart and Patrick Sarell’s animated short Nullarbor and Ivan Sen’s Toomelah about a ten year-old boy turned drug runner in a remote Aboriginal town, which got an excellent response at Cannes.
In fact, Miff has 25 films screening from Cannes’ Competition.
Catch; Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, a mesmerising family drama in the face of the apocaplypse that saw Kirsten Dunst win Best Actress; Maiwenn Le Besco’s Polisse, revolving around officers in a...
- 6/17/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Updated through 5/23.
"The magnificent and dramatic presence of Nature dwarfs human protagonists wallowing in a banal ménage a trois in Naomi Kawase's visually rhapsodic but overbearingly metaphorical and emotionally wan Hanezu," writes Maggie Lee in the Hollywood Reporter. "Again evoking her favorite motifs of pregnancy, death, and heartbreak within the rural environs of Nara (Kawase's hometown and location for all her works), the Japanese director sees no need in varying or transcending her personal blend of documentary and poetic-animist style."
"Amid gorgeous images of the Asuka region of Japan, the nation's birthplace, poetic voiceovers by a man and woman begin the film by recounting the ancient myth of two mountains competing for one another's love," writes Variety's Rob Nelson. "Bringing this tale into present-day, human form is a young couple living together in picturesque Nara prefecture and expecting a child. Pregnant Kayoko (Hako Oshima) dyes scarves red using safflower,...
"The magnificent and dramatic presence of Nature dwarfs human protagonists wallowing in a banal ménage a trois in Naomi Kawase's visually rhapsodic but overbearingly metaphorical and emotionally wan Hanezu," writes Maggie Lee in the Hollywood Reporter. "Again evoking her favorite motifs of pregnancy, death, and heartbreak within the rural environs of Nara (Kawase's hometown and location for all her works), the Japanese director sees no need in varying or transcending her personal blend of documentary and poetic-animist style."
"Amid gorgeous images of the Asuka region of Japan, the nation's birthplace, poetic voiceovers by a man and woman begin the film by recounting the ancient myth of two mountains competing for one another's love," writes Variety's Rob Nelson. "Bringing this tale into present-day, human form is a young couple living together in picturesque Nara prefecture and expecting a child. Pregnant Kayoko (Hako Oshima) dyes scarves red using safflower,...
- 5/23/2011
- MUBI
We’re here to have a little chat about an upcoming Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase, titled Hanezu No Tsuki, and the project that is scheduled to premiere In Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Hanezu No Tsuki is based on a novel by Masako Bando, and we definitely think that it deserves your [...] Cannes 2011: Hanezu No Tsuki by Naomi Kawase is a post from: www.FilmoFilia.com...
- 5/13/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
People fall in love with the wrong people all the time. But Miki Bonomiya, a character played by Yuki Amami in Masato Harada's "Inugami", sets a record for really bad choices. It would reveal too many surprises to explain the forbidden nature of her two romances. Let's just say they produce disturbing dreams, family ghosts, stark tragedies, mysterious fogs and angry forest gods in a remote mountain village on the island of Shikoku.
Drenched in Japanese mysticism and a plot that teeters on the ridiculous, "Inugami" is too marginal to enjoy much exposure outside its native country other than at film festivals. But evocative, moody art direction and graceful, sweeping camera movements do please the eye. It is playing in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Working from the book by Masako Bando, writer-director Harada plops us down in an enchanted village, where generations of women in the Bonomiya family watch over an urn that contains the Inugami, which are wild dog gods. The appearance of a 25-year-old schoolteacher, Akira (Atsuro Watabe), not only stirs feelings in the heart of the spinster Miki but also riles the gods in the urn. Soon, nightmares plague the villagers, and deaths take place. With each tragedy, Miki grows younger, arousing village animosity and triggering vows of revenge against her accursed family.
Harada plays the supernatural tale amid lush forests of ancient cedar trees and a traditional house, where Miki makes exquisite paper using the old-fashioned method of mixing plants, water and glue. Junichi Fujisawa's camera seeks high places from which to spin above or swoop down on these ill-fated people.
The movie is quite a ride, but all that is likely to haunt the minds of moviegoers are the dark and glorious settings. Amami and Watabe's passion and couplings have erotic charge, and the actors make the incredible feel credible. But one must possess a deep love of Eastern mysticism to get anything else out of this fantasy-horror-thriller.
INUGAMI
An Asmik Ace Entertainment production
Producer: Masato Hara
Screenwriter-director: Masato Harada
Based on the book by: Masako Bando
Director of photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Production designer: Hisao Inagaki
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Editor: Soichi Ueno
Color/stereo
Cast:
Miki Bonomiya: Yuki Amami
Akira Nutahara: Atsuro Watabe
Takanao Bonomiya: Kenichi Yajima
Momoyo Bonomiya: Kanako Fukaura
Seiji Doi: Eugene Harada
Rika Bonomiya: Myu Watase
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Drenched in Japanese mysticism and a plot that teeters on the ridiculous, "Inugami" is too marginal to enjoy much exposure outside its native country other than at film festivals. But evocative, moody art direction and graceful, sweeping camera movements do please the eye. It is playing in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Working from the book by Masako Bando, writer-director Harada plops us down in an enchanted village, where generations of women in the Bonomiya family watch over an urn that contains the Inugami, which are wild dog gods. The appearance of a 25-year-old schoolteacher, Akira (Atsuro Watabe), not only stirs feelings in the heart of the spinster Miki but also riles the gods in the urn. Soon, nightmares plague the villagers, and deaths take place. With each tragedy, Miki grows younger, arousing village animosity and triggering vows of revenge against her accursed family.
Harada plays the supernatural tale amid lush forests of ancient cedar trees and a traditional house, where Miki makes exquisite paper using the old-fashioned method of mixing plants, water and glue. Junichi Fujisawa's camera seeks high places from which to spin above or swoop down on these ill-fated people.
The movie is quite a ride, but all that is likely to haunt the minds of moviegoers are the dark and glorious settings. Amami and Watabe's passion and couplings have erotic charge, and the actors make the incredible feel credible. But one must possess a deep love of Eastern mysticism to get anything else out of this fantasy-horror-thriller.
INUGAMI
An Asmik Ace Entertainment production
Producer: Masato Hara
Screenwriter-director: Masato Harada
Based on the book by: Masako Bando
Director of photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Production designer: Hisao Inagaki
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Editor: Soichi Ueno
Color/stereo
Cast:
Miki Bonomiya: Yuki Amami
Akira Nutahara: Atsuro Watabe
Takanao Bonomiya: Kenichi Yajima
Momoyo Bonomiya: Kanako Fukaura
Seiji Doi: Eugene Harada
Rika Bonomiya: Myu Watase
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
People fall in love with the wrong people all the time. But Miki Bonomiya, a character played by Yuki Amami in Masato Harada's "Inugami", sets a record for really bad choices. It would reveal too many surprises to explain the forbidden nature of her two romances. Let's just say they produce disturbing dreams, family ghosts, stark tragedies, mysterious fogs and angry forest gods in a remote mountain village on the island of Shikoku.
Drenched in Japanese mysticism and a plot that teeters on the ridiculous, "Inugami" is too marginal to enjoy much exposure outside its native country other than at film festivals. But evocative, moody art direction and graceful, sweeping camera movements do please the eye. It is playing in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Working from the book by Masako Bando, writer-director Harada plops us down in an enchanted village, where generations of women in the Bonomiya family watch over an urn that contains the Inugami, which are wild dog gods. The appearance of a 25-year-old schoolteacher, Akira (Atsuro Watabe), not only stirs feelings in the heart of the spinster Miki but also riles the gods in the urn. Soon, nightmares plague the villagers, and deaths take place. With each tragedy, Miki grows younger, arousing village animosity and triggering vows of revenge against her accursed family.
Harada plays the supernatural tale amid lush forests of ancient cedar trees and a traditional house, where Miki makes exquisite paper using the old-fashioned method of mixing plants, water and glue. Junichi Fujisawa's camera seeks high places from which to spin above or swoop down on these ill-fated people.
The movie is quite a ride, but all that is likely to haunt the minds of moviegoers are the dark and glorious settings. Amami and Watabe's passion and couplings have erotic charge, and the actors make the incredible feel credible. But one must possess a deep love of Eastern mysticism to get anything else out of this fantasy-horror-thriller.
INUGAMI
An Asmik Ace Entertainment production
Producer: Masato Hara
Screenwriter-director: Masato Harada
Based on the book by: Masako Bando
Director of photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Production designer: Hisao Inagaki
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Editor: Soichi Ueno
Color/stereo
Cast:
Miki Bonomiya: Yuki Amami
Akira Nutahara: Atsuro Watabe
Takanao Bonomiya: Kenichi Yajima
Momoyo Bonomiya: Kanako Fukaura
Seiji Doi: Eugene Harada
Rika Bonomiya: Myu Watase
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Drenched in Japanese mysticism and a plot that teeters on the ridiculous, "Inugami" is too marginal to enjoy much exposure outside its native country other than at film festivals. But evocative, moody art direction and graceful, sweeping camera movements do please the eye. It is playing in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Working from the book by Masako Bando, writer-director Harada plops us down in an enchanted village, where generations of women in the Bonomiya family watch over an urn that contains the Inugami, which are wild dog gods. The appearance of a 25-year-old schoolteacher, Akira (Atsuro Watabe), not only stirs feelings in the heart of the spinster Miki but also riles the gods in the urn. Soon, nightmares plague the villagers, and deaths take place. With each tragedy, Miki grows younger, arousing village animosity and triggering vows of revenge against her accursed family.
Harada plays the supernatural tale amid lush forests of ancient cedar trees and a traditional house, where Miki makes exquisite paper using the old-fashioned method of mixing plants, water and glue. Junichi Fujisawa's camera seeks high places from which to spin above or swoop down on these ill-fated people.
The movie is quite a ride, but all that is likely to haunt the minds of moviegoers are the dark and glorious settings. Amami and Watabe's passion and couplings have erotic charge, and the actors make the incredible feel credible. But one must possess a deep love of Eastern mysticism to get anything else out of this fantasy-horror-thriller.
INUGAMI
An Asmik Ace Entertainment production
Producer: Masato Hara
Screenwriter-director: Masato Harada
Based on the book by: Masako Bando
Director of photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Production designer: Hisao Inagaki
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Editor: Soichi Ueno
Color/stereo
Cast:
Miki Bonomiya: Yuki Amami
Akira Nutahara: Atsuro Watabe
Takanao Bonomiya: Kenichi Yajima
Momoyo Bonomiya: Kanako Fukaura
Seiji Doi: Eugene Harada
Rika Bonomiya: Myu Watase
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/14/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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