★★★★☆ A celebration of cinema's escapist qualities, Daisuke Shimote's mischievous comedy Kuro (2012) received it UK premiere at this year's East End Film Festival after a positive reception at the Tokyo Film Festival. The film's titular protagonist (Daisuke Iijima) dreams of being a baker, yet her reluctance to work as a cashier gets her fired. She meets Gou (Hideo Nakaizumi), a theatre director looking for a new star after his leading actress became tired of his philandering ways. The pair don't exactly get along when they first meet, but after a fairly harmless kidnapping, they find themselves on a road trip heading out of Tokyo.
It's on this excursion that the pair meet Eito (Yu Saitoh), an aspiring photographer who - after a spat with his girlfriend - has decided to visit his uncle's abandoned hotel. Kuro's disenfranchised, Godardian 'Band of Outsiders' are held together by a shared sense of ennui-addled,...
It's on this excursion that the pair meet Eito (Yu Saitoh), an aspiring photographer who - after a spat with his girlfriend - has decided to visit his uncle's abandoned hotel. Kuro's disenfranchised, Godardian 'Band of Outsiders' are held together by a shared sense of ennui-addled,...
- 7/6/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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