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Mâdadayo – 1993 Kurosawa
- The final film from Kurosawa- 83 years old when he made the film– one of the cinema’s greatest artists
- It is about a retired professor—he’s a simple man, a good man, sentimental (the cat stuff is a bit much)—like the old man in Dodes’ka-den he sort of welcomes burglars into his home- that sort of wisdom
- Hilarious little vignette about a horse staring him down while he buys horse meat from the butcher
- Lots of drinking and storytelling- a few acts turn into almost musical theater
- the group of his former students in a line like the funeral in Ikiru
- at 34 minutes the there’s a nice frame- he’s facing the camera, framed by the sliding wood doors and two students facing him. Another one of them looking at the moon framed by the door
- the ending is superb as well- he has a memory/dream of himself as child and the camera floats into the watercolor clouds as he drifts away—really fitting
- Recommend but not in the top 10 of 1993
Drake2020-09-16T16:03:00+00:00
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Why is Rhapsody In August(1991) not in the archives?
@Anderson- haven’t been able to find it- haven’t seen it
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