What a better night than new year's eve to reflect on the past than watching Millenium Actress by Sathoshi Kon? An beautifully and delicately crafted love story to cinema, film and art: "Chiyoko, a film director is like a painter, a painter puts the colors as he wants on the canvas. And I found a great color for my canvas. This color is you."
Despite the obvious love and references for directors like Kurosawa and Kubrick, the masterful edition choices…
Well...this went dark rather quickly.
I think I have never witnessed a quite 'harmless' coming-of-age story with changed its tone so rapidly in a matter of seconds. Seriously, I had to get back a few seconds to be sure that I didn't had a blackout for minutes.
Talking about the overall romanticised imagination of a thirteen year-old girl, about how first love and sexual experiences would be, hitting you in the face with a shovel of the violence of the real.
+1 for the last ten minutes.
