The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (Ozu, 1952): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.45pm
This 4K presentation, part of the Yasujirō Ozu season at BFI Southbank, is also being screened on September 30th. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
The dissolution of a Japanese marriage: the wife complains of her
husband’s dull provincialism, the husband chafes under his wife’s
Western pretensions. Yasujiro Ozu’s delicate melodramas (this one dates
from his finest period, 1952) avoid any sense of cliche in their
restrained, sometimes painfully subtle study of family relationships.
Ozu is the master of a difficult and austere style, in which the lack of
camera movement sometimes speaks more than the elaborate techniques of
his contemporaries.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is an extract.
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