Heart of Darkness
di Anthony Lane The New Yorker
Anybody who attends "The Cruel Stories of Nagisa Oshima," a retrospective playing at BAM through April 14, will feel the need to ask: what is the nature of that cruelty, and where does it reside? Is it a private matter between men and women, or is it inflicted upon them by a heavier social unease? Much of Oshima's best work was made in the nineteen-sixties, barely two decades after the Japanese surrender; a movie such as the extraordinary "Violence at Noon," which screens on April 11, flits between flourishing city streets and more ancient patterns of life in the countryside—between high-speed trains and herds of dead pigs. [...]
di Anthony Lane, articolo completo (1077 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New Yorker 13 aprile 2009
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