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onuryz

could have been in 366 Weird Movies list.

5 years 2 months ago

nbats

https://archive.org/details/seijun-suzuki-tsigoineruwaizen-1980
Subs in settings

6 months 2 weeks ago

After daring to sue a studio for breach of contract, maverick Japanese director Seijun Suzuki (best known for Tokyo Drifter) was blacklisted for a decade. His indie comeback in 1980 eschews his past gangster films, but not his formal experiments nor his surrealism. Zigeunerweisen, the first of what would become a thematic trilogy, is the story of a close but trying friendship between two academics in the post-War period, one of them having become a boorish wanderer. Though the Criterion Channel's summation of the film as "cryptic" isn't wrong, it's pretty clearly an examination of what lingers after death. From the voice of a long-dead musician accidentally caught on a record, to poetic discussions about skeletons, and the fading memory of a dead friend represented by having to return all his effects to his widow, Suzuki also creates visual evocations of death in the living (heads decapitated in frame, and so on). But he's also dissecting the state of being dead and not know it, people who are really ghosts, whose illnesses are only prolonging the inevitable, and given the setting, that's also Japanese culture as it gets infected with America's in this era. Dream logic abounds, but dreams also reach into this world and affect it. It's a strong return for the director, but he's definitely moved on since the 1960s - does he count himself as one of the dead?

3 months 1 week ago

nymets138

Watch it with English subtitles here: http://putlockers.plus/watch/mx5kw3dR-tsigoineruwaizen.html

6 years 1 month ago