Capital Celluloid 2016 - Day 297: Mon Oct 24

Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6pm


This 35mm screening is part of the 'Big Screen Classics' season at BFI Southbank and is also being shown on October 21st and 25th. Details here.

Chicago Reader review:
'Japanese New Wave director Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 allegory on the meaning of freedom and the discovery of identity. An office worker (Eiji Okada) on an entomological holiday spends the night with a widow (Kyoko Kishida), whose shack at the bottom of a sand pit becomes his prison. Gradually he learns to love her and to help her in her endless task of shoveling sand, which the local villagers use to protect themselves from the elements. A bizarre film, distinguished not so much by Kobo Abe's rather obvious screenplay as by Teshigahara's arresting visual style of extreme depth of focus, immaculate detail, and graceful eroticism.'
Dan Druker

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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