Folie à Deux?
If you go away…
Folie, adieux.
There are sounds present that anyone familiar with the piano would recognise, in addition to Sakamoto's beautiful music: the gentle thud of a depressed pedal, its release, the thump of dampers' subsequent rise and fall, and of course the breath of the pianist himself. This film is not just a musical recording, but a document of live performance with all its idiosyncrasies captured for posterity.
But it is not just a performance. Sakamoto is shot in monochrome matching the black…