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Katatsumori 1994
"It’s not a real Japanese word. I made it up. “Katatsumuri” means a snail in Japanese. A snail has a shell, or a house, so to speak. When I was growing up, without a proper family, I felt like a snail without a home. So it’s my wordplay on two words: snail and “tsumori,” which in Japanese means, “to intend to.” In this sense, the Japanese title conveys the sense of someone who almost has a home, but at the same time is questioning what it means to have one."
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A Dramatic Film 2019
i bet a whole load of people are gonna shrug this off as just a film about kids but to me it actually has a very powerful, very marxist ideology behind it. use what's available: curiosity, imagination...
baudelaire described his style as 'horizontal': not looking at the children from above, anticipating or projecting on their vision. from this, the choice of giving them the camera. it was not a “pedagogical" participation of the children. he did not want the teach…
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