There is much to say about Tokyo. A multi-layered metropolis with a futuristic flick; an urban tissue, moving bodies trying to catch the train in ever-busy Shinjuku station; skyscrapers as high as the solitude of protagonists lost in translation; a motionless mass of people wearing their masks in a post-Teshigahara dystopic vision of a surrealist waltz going live (think of the last scene of “The Face of Another”). Piling up her take on Tokyo is Yukiko Sode, the director of “Aristocrats”, with a subtle dive into the melodrama of high class and those below, in which Japanese capital becomes a scene for the bourgeois acts of self-indulgence and a trial for women’s agency.
On the occasion of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where the film premiered online in the Big Screen Competition, I was lucky to e-meet Sode for a short talk. We revisioned our first impressions and experiences...
On the occasion of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where the film premiered online in the Big Screen Competition, I was lucky to e-meet Sode for a short talk. We revisioned our first impressions and experiences...
- 2/28/2021
- by Lukasz Mankowski
- AsianMoviePulse
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