A Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu, 1934): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 11.50am
This 35mm presentation, also screening on September 23rd, is part of the Yasujirō Ozu season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
One of the last of Yasujiro Ozu’s silent films, which he remade toward
the end of his career, this 1934 feature has a fairly standard
soap-opera plot—the lead actor in an impoverished acting troupe returns
to a remote mountain village to meet his illegitimate son for the first
time—but, needless to say, the Japanese master works wonders with it.
Like other Ozu films of the period, this has a great deal of camera
movement; stylistic purification would later lead him to eliminate such
expressive devices.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is a link to an extract.
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