Anfang der 1990er-Jahre stürzte die japanische Wirtschaft nach den Jahren einer über billige Kredite finanzierten Bubble Economy in eine tiefe Depression. Als die Bank of Japan zur Inflationsbekämpfung die Zinsen anhob, fielen die heiß gelaufenen Immobilienpreise und Aktienindizes ins Bodenlose – es war der Beginn der Ushinawareta Nijunen („Zwei verlorene Jahrzehnte“), einer von wirtschaftlicher Stagnation geprägten Ära mit Massenentlassungen und prekären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen. Viele der "Salarymen" - die ihren hierarchisch geführten Unternehmen und Vorgesetzten zur absoluten Loyalität verpflichteten japanischen Büroangestellten –…
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A Few Days with Me 1988
In the 1980s, the now economically declining city of Limoges was still a proud provincial capital, famous for its ceramic craft. The local ceramics fair is also the reason why our protagonist, heir of a Parisian trade dynasty who has travelled from the capital to inspect the accounts of the local hypermarché, cannot find a hotel room and decides to stay in an apartment only available long-term, as he hopes to transcend the mental prison of his autism and speechlessness…
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Deceived 1991
Not every director manages to turn the eye contact between two strangers in a restaurant into an opening scene that gives you goosebumps. This marriage fraud thriller does a lot of other things right, even if it is a bit too conventionally told in the middle section. The depicted setting of art dealers and museum curators would be worth its own preppy TV series spin-off.
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Stillwater 2021
The script is strongly reminiscent of a crime series on HBO, making it a bit too predictable. Nevertheless, the film is beautifully shot and also gets through on an emotional level. This is mainly due to a charming class-transcending love story, which is something you would like to see more often in today's new culture wars. When tenderness is emerging between the left-wing French alternative theater milieu and the American Midwest, then cinema as a dream machine still has something to give us.
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