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Melbourne, Australia

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The White Balloon

Absolutely wonderful! My only gripe is the awful subtitles, I tried five or six different subtitles that I found online and all of them were terribly translated and out of sync. But that has nothing to do with the film itself, which was excellent. Kiarostami and Panahi make for a fine team.

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PolarisDiB

30Dec09

Oh yes! I'ven't seen anything else by Teshigahara, but I did get to see Woman in the Dunes as a double feature at a local theatre with Kurosawa's High and Low. Honestly, I love Kurosawa, but you needn't see his movies on the big screen all that often, at least, all of the movies of his I've seen on the big screen (Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashomon, and High and Low) did not benefit from it. I'd imagine his color and widescreen movies like Ran and Kagemusha would be great. But Woman in the Dunes on the big screen was just profound. The sand looked compelling and gorgeous, mysterious and powerful, and terrifying. And you're right, his escape feels more thrilling than cinematic Auschwitz escapes, though I think a large part of that is that the surreal situation he finds himself in means it's hard to understand what's going on and how this world operates, so the unknown danger he's in (as opposed to the well-known danger of the camps) is part of the thrill. --DiB