Early Spring (Ozu, 1956): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.10pm
This 4K presentation, part of the Yasujirō Ozu season at BFI Southbank, is also being screened on October 1st. Details here.
Time Out review:
A typically low-key domestic
drama in Ozu's mournful, defeatist vein: it deals with the break-up
between an office-worker and his wife when the husband embarks on a
tentative affair, and surrounds both partners with extensive webs of
friends, relatives, acquaintances and colleagues. It's shot and
edited in Ozu's characteristic 'minimalist' style, with hardly any
camera movement, a carefully circumscribed syntax, and an editing
method that's as unconventional by Japanese standards as it is remote
from the Western norm. Ozu's pessimism is deeply reactionary, and the
idiosyncrasy of his methods is more interesting for its exoticism
than anything else; but anyone who finds the socio-psychological
problems of post-war Japan engaging will find the movie both
fascinating and rather moving, simply as evidence.
Tony Rayns
Here (and above) is an extract.
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