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Himizu
Released: 01/06/2012
Released in key cities
Himizu's young actors were winners in Venice last year, for playing classmates Yuichi and Keiko, living in a devastated post-tsunami landscape with parents that despise them and aren't afraid to show it (Keiko's mother builds a set of gallows to make sure her daughter gets the message). A customarily brutal feature from cult director, Shion Sono, based on Minoru Furnuya's manga.
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http://thirdwindowfilms.com/films/himizu
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http://www.ica.org.uk/33178/Film/Himizu.html
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40%
The Independent“Wildly uneven in tone...” Shota Sometani is very impressive and there is a feisty performance from Fumi Nikaido as the female classmate who reveres him. If Sion had concentrated on these two characters, the film would have worked well enough...
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80 %
Guardian“Tender, affecting performances from Shôta Sometani and Fumi Nikaidô...” Not only staggering images that exemplify our tumbledown world but what may become one of the great themes of our time: how the young will bear the yoke of elders who've been wiped out– financially, geographically, emotionally– by recent events..
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80 %
Little White Lies“A near-masterpiece from one of the most significant directors...” Himizu combines all the director’s strengths while introducing a tentative humanism that proves remarkably affecting...
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60%
Empire“Over-the-top but blackly funny along the way...” Darkly comic, technically audacious but dramatically reckless and typically excessive Sono reworking of a Minoru Furuya manga...
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60%
Time Out“Sono’s dedication to excess is impressive but frustrating...” Complex, confused and lacking in focus, but it’s shot through with moments of astonishing power and clarity...
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60%
Total Film “Aggression lurks in every scene - even the romantic ones...” Sono's absorbing if erratic comedy is menaced by Dolby-battering audio, neo-Nazis, Yakuza thugs and dream sequences shot on location in the tsunami’s wake...
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