Tag: Second World War

• In Yasujirô Ozu’s Words: The Change of Seasons

  

  I tried to show the collapse of the Japanese family system through showing children growing up. Yasujirô Ozu Ozu’s post-war work, during the time when he made his most memorable films, is characterized by the same theme which is presented over and over. In his own words, he presents the “collapse of the Japanese family…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  March 29, 2019

  In the Words of the Director

  Conservative, Culture, Family, History, Japan, Japanese, Marriage, Nature, Second World War, Society, War

• Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) “…Nevers Mon Amour”

  

  Hiroshima Mon Amour, directed by Alain Resnais, opens with a close-up of an arm and body amorously entangled. They are in the dark, their bodies are joined and small particles, resembling ashes or sand (as the sands of time), are falling and covering them. They are caressing and soon begin to glow, as they are…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  March 20, 2018

  Alan Resnais, European cinema, French cinema

  Art, Atomic Bombing, Cultural Trauma, Destructive Love, Forgetting, France, Hiroshima, Klimt, Love, Second World War, Trauma