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The Unbreakable Frame (2022)
Directed by Adrian Martin, Cristina Álvarez López
· 4m
In 1979, film scholar Noël Burch strongly criticized the films from the 1950s by Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse. He would be stuck in a "western mode of representation", and his work would be "academic" and "over-edited". Maybe even almost like the soap operas on TV! What Burch failed to see is how Naruse transforms a seemingly simple decoupage into his secret form of mise-en-scene, with endless variations and modulations. Let's look at eighteen consecutive shots from Sound of the Mountain (1954)…
Crew
- Director
- Adrian Martin, Cristina Álvarez López
Details
- Release date
- 2022-01-19
- Runtime
- 4m
- Original language
- EN