2019
Japan
The Forest of Love
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Read The Clyde's review for insight into how this is "The cinematic equivalent of a Sono Sion Greatest Hits Album". And also know that Sono whips out films like this--writing, directing, editing--in less time than it takes most filmmakers to come up with the idea for a film. There's nothing important here. Anybody who tells you there is, is making it up. It has one of Sono's best complete asshole characters to date, so charming it's a wonder to behold--how the actor pulls it off. Sono's excellent taste in music provides the soundtrack, along with an intriguing use of distorted low hum that pushes the action and dialog into the background leaving you with a sense that you just came to consciousness from being knocked out with a baseball bat. Sono considers himself first and foremost a painter. Second, a poet. He says he's interested in quantity more than quality. He can sleep standing up. He's not in the company of someone like Koreeda who makes 'films'. He's like Johnny Rotten with ten times the energy and output. An eighth grade punk could make the outline of this film but could never achieve the imagery, the audio/visual marriage, or what Sono gets from his actors. He is also a film director whether he likes it or not. Who cares what the film is about? It's just another Sono exiled sandwich. I liked this one, put it between EXTE and GUILTY OF ROMANCE Summary: Two women are filmed by a con man and his documentary crew, who uncover dark secrets. |
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