Year: 2005
Duration: 95'
Japanese
countryside, 1930. People are waiting at a cinema for the arrival of
the silent
film Utsukushiki Tennen, but the boy
delivering
the final reel of the film finds out about the tragic ending of the
story in
which his favorite leading actress is cast. So he buries the film. Time
passes.
The boy has become an old man and now lives with a couple of women: a
mother
who suffers for her beloved husband and her daughter other who takes
care of
her coldly.
"Next
year will be 10 years since filming began. Everytime I look back on it
I am
amazed. What amazes me is how much of what had been etched into the
film no
longer is. The theater, the train tracks, the trees along the river
have
disappeared. There are performers we will no longer see. Wind, time,
sound, thoughts...
All are invisible, yet all exist. What we no longer see but what
certainly
existed, such as a sigh heaved by someone a thousand years ago, a
raindrop that
fell a hundred years ago, or Nuages
d'hier,
the clouds of yesterday... I will be glad if this film reminds you of
such
things." (Tsubokawa T.)
Biography
film director
Takushi Tsubokawa
Tsubokawa
Takushi (Hokkaido,
Japan, 1972) became a
member in 1993 of the theatrical company On-Theatre Jiyu Gikijo, which
was
disbanded in
FILMOGRAFIA
Jyûni-gatsu
no Sanrinsha (Tricycle of
December, cm, 1996),
Utsukushiki Tennen (Nuages d'hier, 2005).
TFF
prizes
