Monday, April 6, 2015

116. Pastoral: to die in the country (1974)


Country: Japan
Directed by Shuji Terayama

One of the most beautiful visually films of Terayama that evokes a lot of feelings that are difficult to be described as is touching our subconscious , a strange dream that often is freaky but still attractive. The passing time , the memory that comes back again and again, the revision of a traumatic childhood that can be at the same time the traumatic history of a whole country, the old ourself that we look at him as to be a ghost , as -most of the time annoying- ghosts are all the things and people that we carry from the past. Of course , as usual, this Terayama film seems a bit pretentious and simplistic but is a genuine poetry on it , with some images so powerful that is impossible to be forgotten, a fine avant-garde work of high quality that at the end you have to admire      


You can watch the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MThQ8kQHEyg

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