With Beauty and Sorrow
Dir: Shinoda Masahiro
Japan, 1965, 104minmins, 35mm
Cast: Yachigusa Kaoru, Kaga Mariko, Yamamura So
Shinoda’s consummate visual style allies with Kawabata’s poetic, subtly-shaded prose work to examine the romantic tragedy of pain, jealousy and obsession. Exquisite mise-en-scène and color cinematography unfolds an intertwined melodrama about a young beautiful student and lesbian lover of a famous painter seeking revenge against her mentor’s ex-lover – a married novelist who impregnated and abandoned her two decades ago. A nostalgic claustrophobia that traps the characters, traumatized by the fiery determination to destroy all in a quest for self-possession.
Asia-Pacific Film Festival: Best Supporting Actress
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Full House 2019-04-07 (Sun)
17:00Full House 2019-04-21 (Sun)
19:00
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
Chinese Subtitles
Full House
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