UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15431024
Format:
2 DVD-Video (ca. 123 Min.)
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Tonformat: Mono
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1 Beih. (39 S.)
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Bildformat: 4:3
Series Statement:
Le geste cinématographique : [DVD-Video]
Content:
... rural Japan: But Kashima Paradise is different, because the human part of farmers and workers is never submitted to a Manichean propaganda and its political legitimacy. First, we take the time to show people daily life before assisting to their tenacious struggles, against the industrial' projects polluting countryside and killing freedoms of rural proletariat in order to impose an airport in Narita, a lost battle since it's here that airplanes land today when we go to Tokyo. In that sense, Kashima Paradise also describes a defeat. Then, this film is a history page which explains Japan of this time from a unique place, applying the principle enounced by Alberto Cavalcanti : if you want to tell the history of the Post office, begin to tell the history of a letter. And Kashima Paradise, it's exactly that : a village and its local struggles which enlighten all the Japanese and patriarchal system at the beginning of the seventies, a pyramid on which the capitalist world reign by preserving feudal traditions and the appearance of imperial democracy to preserve better an proslavery feudalism. All of this would be enough to make this film a masterpiece, but there is more to point out in Kashima Paradise, and first that cinema, this mystery defining sometimes invisible, is absolutely present in its magic purity. Contrary to many films signed by a brillant photography director (Yann Le Masson signed between others the image of Tu imagines Robinson de Jean-Daniel Pollet, and it's not nothing), formalism and beautiful photography never cannibalizes the subject by a condescending and virtuoso aesthetic. Authors do a gift to spectators because they give to see, first and above all, then the commentary doesn't illustrate anything but extend, or he knows how open other parts of this history. So don't look here picturesque of misery and oppression. Let's add that Kashima Paradise comes out in a set with J'ai huit ans, entirely conceived from Algerian children's drawings whom family was slaughtered by French soldiers, Sucre amer on Michel Debré's campaign for legislative elections at La réunion in 1963, and Regarde, elle a les yeux grands ouverts about an abortionists trial from Aix. Then, there is Heligonda, a deeply moving chronic of a man loosing gradually eyesight and learning thus to see reality with his hands. Extraordinary by sense of modesty and absence of complacency. Yann Le Masson's work must be rediscovered to have a free mind. (Noël Simsolo)
Note:
Ländercode: 2
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Orig.: Frankreich, 1973
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Franz.
Language:
French
Keywords:
Japan
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Landbevölkerung
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Protestbewegung
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Geschichte 1973
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Erlebnisbericht
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DVD-Video
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Narita
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Flughafenplanung
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Protestbewegung
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Geschichte 1973
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Erlebnisbericht
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DVD-Video
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Erlebnisbericht
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DVD-Video
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Erlebnisbericht
Author information:
Marker, Chris
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