Gûzen to sôzô (2021)

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   leodelgado01

   Beautiful. It could be a stage play, for how much it relies on characters talking with one another, mostly in dialogues, and interacting in pairs. There aren't many flashy moments of camerawork and editing (except a couple really interesting ones, ex.: the one at the cafe, the one at the escalator etc.) and there are many long takes of people just talking. That being said, I loved this film. Divided in three parts, stories only connected by the theme that carries the whole thing, the movie follows these sometimes intense, other times casual, always authentic conversations, avoiding easy answers, exploring the impact of fate and fortune (and misfortune) and the weight of our choices. There is tragedy and there is romance and there is comedy and there is loneliness and heartbreak and doubt and so much more. Nothing is alienating: even when a character does something weird or bad, I never felt them as anything more (or less) than people. 2 years 8 months ago
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   ucuruju

   like a warmness coursing through my veins. 2 years 7 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy presents three thematically-linked stories, and it's those links, along with the title, that give his mundane slice-of-life tales a sense that great forces - psychological and cosmic - are at work in our lives, forces that take us into the territory of poetics. In each story, two things: A web of coincidence creates a chance encounter that one character describes as Dramatic Meeting. And characters will go in with one intention and end up doing something else with greater conviction. If the film is about regret, it's largely about overcoming that regret and moving on. Where there is ambiguity, it's the sort of every-day ambiguity that comes from not knowing another person (or even oneself) fully, and ultimately it's in the service of finding some grace in the world, and therefore, some poignancy for the audience. Each story is better than the last, and though each is small, private, and essentially just a conversation or series of conversations, each feels momentous in its own way. Unadorned cinema at its best. 7 months ago

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