Tag: criterion
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Ukigusa (Floating Weeds) – (1959)
A lot of time and energy is spent trying to divide life into this or that. Rather than accept that things are shaded in gray and deal with the murkiness that idea involves, people instead try to make things easy on themselves and group things into a series of good and bad or right and…
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Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) – In Brief
I’m still sorting out my complete feelings for the movie but hopefully I can find something eloquent to say about this film. Needless to say, Yasujirō Ozu’s story of mistakes, regret, jealousy and love is visually poetic and lovely to watch unfold. My being more impressed of the film on a technical level isn’t an…
Israel Daramola 