Cinematheque: Kaneto Shindo
"Postcard" (Japan, 2010, 35mm, 114 min., subtitled, with Etsushi Toyokawa, Shinobu Otake, Naomasa Musaka)
Event Details
Date
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Time
7 p.m.
Location
UW Cinematheque, 4070, Vilas Hall
Description
The 99-year-old auteur's latest is an unsentimental anti-war melodrama. Focusing on the wrenching tale of an impoverished Japanese peasant woman whose entire family is killed, one-by-one, in the waning days of World War II, the film was partially inspired by Shindo's own WWII service. Shindo's testament to the anguish of survival is occasionally tempered with odd doses of humor and coincidence, which only adds to its haunted authenticity. (MK)
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