Film - A Full Life (Mitasareta seikatsu)

When
24 Mar 2019
7:00 PM
Location
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Film - A Full Life (Mitasareta seikatsu)

Sunday, March 24, 2019 from 7:00 PM

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street ,
Cambridge, MA 02138

Hani's stylish and understated second feature has been frequently compared to Antonioni for its subtle telling of a young woman's growing awareness of her environment, and herself. Dissatisfied with her failing marriage, the woman abruptly joins a political theater troupe and is pulled into the feverish activist scene ignited by the massive and unprecedented anti-US Security Pact protests. While Hani's dazzling use of Tokyo locations and documentary style camerawork clearly link A Full Life to his earlier work, Hani’s compelling and feminist fable of political awakening introduced a new sophistication into his cinema.

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