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Alexander Robino
4Jan12
Blew me away a little - always nice these days. Could return to this film many times.
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PoutingBear
21Dec11
I'm aware that a certain amount of length is needed to make this a claustrophobic and disconcerting watch (on account of the subject matter), but I felt that this, much like the book it is based on, was just too long. Also, unlike Kafka's characters, Abe's protagonists are not at all likeable; both in this and in The Face of Another I found myself feeling that they deserved their fates. That said, it was enthralling.
Francisco R.
16Dec11
A wonderfully suggestive, multilayered allegory about life and relationships, with a narrative flow resembling both the work of Alain Resnais and the classic japanese dramas showcasing the visual sensitivity of Teshigahara. I've never seen a movie so assured of its thoughtfulness withuout falling into the depths of existentialist gloom or other type of heavy handed pacing, using instead suspense of the highest order.
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Tyler1
2Dec11
Woman in the dunes stands in between classic japanese cinema (ozu,mizo,kuro) and post modern japanese cinema. As such, critics cannot reference this film to any other. In the 60s, violence and sex were appearing on japanese screens. Dismissed as a cheap erotica movie, this film has been neglected by many. Camus would be proud of this.
Fábio Gomes
23Nov11
Extremely metaphorical work which can have many interpretations on different grouds - like politics, society, religion. It's imagery wanders between surrealistic and expressionist, always giving us a well built sense of claustrophoby. A great film worth seeing - and thinking.
trolley freak
17May11
Kyoko Kishida, who I recently watched starring opposite Ayako Wakao in Masumura's Manji, gives an erotically charged performance in Teshigahara's tour de force of visual style as an enigmatic woman living in a sandpit with an entomologist tricked into joining her. The physicality of their relationship is conveyed in an extraordinary way, with numerous close-up's of their sweaty, sand coated bodies...
Savannah
16Apr11
Sand and life are shapeless particle madness. A detailed everything, meaningless and pervasive.
Floyd Webb
13Nov10
I saw this film in a month long festival of Japanese Film at the World Playhouse Theater in Chicago in 1969. This was one of the most memorable films among so many amazing films. I was 16 and falling in love with cinema.
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Zachary Curl
12Oct10
this movie is worth the price of Criterion's whole Teshigahara boxset. this was the movie i was least interested in according to the description, but the one i found that i liked the most.
Tonicengine
7Oct10
I've been looking for a youtube clip of this opening credit sequence for sometime - bueller?
The Shadows and Silence
20Jun10
Wonderful adaptation of Abe Kōbō's masterpiece, it captured his unique blend of fantasy, nihilism/existenialism and vivid imagery so well, can't wait to check out the rest of Teshigahara's ouvre.
A Serious Man Who Wasn't There
13Feb10
Teshigahara is some God of Sand from an Ancient Japanese Myth. And he decided to transform himself in a man and direct this masterpiece. Stunningly beautiful, also scary as hell sometimes.
Robert W Peabody III
11Nov09
Woman in the Dunes (1964) Suna no onna DIR Hiroshi Teshigahara 147 Min the primitive adapts and endures... a corollary to Godard’s _2 or 3 Things I Know About Her_
Waerdnotte
10Nov09
This is an absolutely beautiful piece of film making. The story is perfectly paced and measured, the cinematography is inspiring. The music unnerving. Quite simply, one of the bravest movies I have ever seen. The use of sand and isolationism to reflect humankind's metophorical battle through life, and the need for acceptance is quite thrilling.
