kazou

This is one of those movies that you love or hate, but that moves you anyway. It has so many details, so many reactions of the characters so the pleasures game that the director wants to play that is difficult for me to treat the film only in only direction or conclusion. As you may have read before, it tells us about a film director in his forties that is shooting an erotic scene and he discovers how the actress enjoys breaking the taboo of masturbation in front of a camera. She tells him how intense and marvelous that feeling was, but after a time they meet by random and she tells him he traumatized her... now the director is interested about what crosses to someone's mind when breaking a rule himself has imposed. I will not say this is a psychologist study, nor a pornographic film although the extremely explicit content, but it is such and intense and dark look about how we can become blind by our passions instead of use our head and the advices we receive from our friends (wife and grandmother in the film). And we all know how naturally and honestly french talk about feelings, which make the film believable. For me, it was a whole experience and, with the Danish film Princess, and maybe the Swish Snow White and Brannagh's The Magic Flute, the only worthy film of the Sevilla 06 film festival.

This movie started the Asian terror fever with a shocking horror view from Mr. Nakata- sama. Us the occidentals loved this tape because of its slow and quite vision of the story, and the chilling ghosts with no mercy. So Great. Arigatou Hideo, your movies and your culture are a part of us now.

The movie itself represents the contrasts between the modern and the past Japanese society, both truly respectful about ghosts. The more slow things happen the more tension you get around your neck. It was a surprise for everyone and now we have lots of copies, but the original first exported must be viewed as a representation of that cinema we honoured these days.