Abuse and exploitation can take on many forms, can be physical or psychological, but most of the time it may just be a combination of the two. While no one would deny their lasting effect on the individual, actually breaking out of that circle and not walking a path which is potentially self-destructive and can also hurt those around you, is quite taxing for many, and it can take years to finally be able to put these experiences behind you. In his short feature “Love Suicides” Malaysian director Edmund Yeo tackles the subject of an abusive relationship, telling the story of a family whose members suffer from the behavior of the father, which leaves quite a mark on the mother and the daughter in their connection and in general their way of looking at the world.
Love Suicides is streaming on Mubi Malaysia
Based on a story by writer Yasunari Kawabata,...
Love Suicides is streaming on Mubi Malaysia
Based on a story by writer Yasunari Kawabata,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Inspired by a mix of Nobel Literature Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata’s short novels, “The Master of Funerals” is a debut feature by Naofumi Higuchi, who turned the whole project into a homage to the late writer. The orphaned writer in fact, had moved from his birthplace Osaka to Ikibari to stay with his grandmother and attend the Prefectural Ibaraki Junior High School, the same school (now a Senior High School) featured in the movie. The title too refers to the sorrow nickname Kawabata gave to himself after burying his parents first, his sister not long after, and finally both his grandparents. However, despite the sadness connected with the title, Higuchi’s work tries hard to retain the true spirit of Kawabata’s elegies to beautiful things.
“The Master of Funerals” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Single mum, factory worker and blogger Yukiko Watanabe (Atsuko Maeda) lives her simple and busy life in Ikebara,...
“The Master of Funerals” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Single mum, factory worker and blogger Yukiko Watanabe (Atsuko Maeda) lives her simple and busy life in Ikebara,...
- 10/4/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
About This Film
Kingyo (which means “goldfish” in Japanese) is a short film by the Malaysian filmmaker Edmund Yeo. It is based on Yasunari Kawabata’s 1924 short story “Canaries”. His previous efforts, which include short films like “Chicken rice mystery”, “Fleeting images” and “Love suicides” showcased his talent effectively, while in “Kingyo”, his first Japanese language short film, it’s clearly visible that he has only taken his talent in the forward direction. The film, which wonderfully depicts love, loss and memories has the ability to have a longing effect on the audiences even after it’s finished.
Synopsis
The young female protagonist of this film, played by Luchino Fujisaki, is dressed up in a French maid’s costume offering the pedestrian a guided tour of the city of Akihabara for 10,000 ¥.She seems lost in the colourful and crowded citys as her offer is being completely overlooked. But then she encounters a middle aged man,...
Kingyo (which means “goldfish” in Japanese) is a short film by the Malaysian filmmaker Edmund Yeo. It is based on Yasunari Kawabata’s 1924 short story “Canaries”. His previous efforts, which include short films like “Chicken rice mystery”, “Fleeting images” and “Love suicides” showcased his talent effectively, while in “Kingyo”, his first Japanese language short film, it’s clearly visible that he has only taken his talent in the forward direction. The film, which wonderfully depicts love, loss and memories has the ability to have a longing effect on the audiences even after it’s finished.
Synopsis
The young female protagonist of this film, played by Luchino Fujisaki, is dressed up in a French maid’s costume offering the pedestrian a guided tour of the city of Akihabara for 10,000 ¥.She seems lost in the colourful and crowded citys as her offer is being completely overlooked. But then she encounters a middle aged man,...
- 5/13/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
By Sayandeep Bandyopadhyay
Kingyo (which means “goldfish” in Japanese) is a short film by the Malaysian filmmaker Edmund Yeo. It is based on Yasunari Kawabata’s 1924 short story “Canaries”. His previous efforts, which include short films like “Chicken rice mystery”, “Fleeting images” and “Love suicides” showcased his talent effectively, while in “Kingyo”, his first Japanese language short film, it’s clearly visible that he has only taken his talent in the forward direction. The film, which wonderfully depicts love, loss and memories has the ability to have a longing effect on the audiences even after it’s finished.
The young female protagonist of this film, played by Luchino Fujisaki, is dressed up in a French maid’s costume offering the pedestrian a guided tour of the city of Akihabara for 10,000 ¥.She seems lost in the colourful and crowded citys as her offer is being completely overlooked. But then she encounters a middle aged man,...
Kingyo (which means “goldfish” in Japanese) is a short film by the Malaysian filmmaker Edmund Yeo. It is based on Yasunari Kawabata’s 1924 short story “Canaries”. His previous efforts, which include short films like “Chicken rice mystery”, “Fleeting images” and “Love suicides” showcased his talent effectively, while in “Kingyo”, his first Japanese language short film, it’s clearly visible that he has only taken his talent in the forward direction. The film, which wonderfully depicts love, loss and memories has the ability to have a longing effect on the audiences even after it’s finished.
The young female protagonist of this film, played by Luchino Fujisaki, is dressed up in a French maid’s costume offering the pedestrian a guided tour of the city of Akihabara for 10,000 ¥.She seems lost in the colourful and crowded citys as her offer is being completely overlooked. But then she encounters a middle aged man,...
- 5/11/2020
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Best score nominee Alexandre Desplat will be unable to attend Sunday’s Oscar ceremonies because of recent throat surgery, a rep for the composer confirms.
The French native, already a two-time Oscar winner (for 2014’s “Grand Budapest Hotel” and 2017’s “The Shape of Water”), is nominated this year for his Japanese-flavored score for Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs.”
Life imitated art recently while Desplat was writing a 75-minute opera that will debut on Tuesday in Luxembourg. It is titled “Silence,” based on a short story by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, in which the author visits another writer who can no longer speak.
During the composition process, Desplat was also finding it difficult to speak, and physicians advised him to have “a surgical procedure to repair his vocal cords,” the rep said. “He had the procedure, has successfully recuperated, and has regained full use of his vocal cords.”
The composer...
The French native, already a two-time Oscar winner (for 2014’s “Grand Budapest Hotel” and 2017’s “The Shape of Water”), is nominated this year for his Japanese-flavored score for Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs.”
Life imitated art recently while Desplat was writing a 75-minute opera that will debut on Tuesday in Luxembourg. It is titled “Silence,” based on a short story by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, in which the author visits another writer who can no longer speak.
During the composition process, Desplat was also finding it difficult to speak, and physicians advised him to have “a surgical procedure to repair his vocal cords,” the rep said. “He had the procedure, has successfully recuperated, and has regained full use of his vocal cords.”
The composer...
- 2/22/2019
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Coming off an Oscar this year for his “The Shape of Water” score, Alexandre Desplat has some significant laurels to rest on, but the kudos haven’t put a crimp in his tirelessness. The prolific French composer has three scores in contention for this year’s awards and has even managed to squeeze in the creation of an opera that will be be staged early next year.
All three of Desplat’s films are musically unconventional, and the most peculiar among them is “Isle of Dogs” — no surprise given that the film is Wes Anderson’s wild stop-motion animation tale set in a future Japan where canines are banished by a dog-hating politician to a garbage-strewn island.
“It’s a very strange score,” he admits. Desplat’s imagination ran as wild as Anderson’s, creating an ensemble of taiko drums, recorders, saxophones and male choir, along with the slightly more conventional piano,...
All three of Desplat’s films are musically unconventional, and the most peculiar among them is “Isle of Dogs” — no surprise given that the film is Wes Anderson’s wild stop-motion animation tale set in a future Japan where canines are banished by a dog-hating politician to a garbage-strewn island.
“It’s a very strange score,” he admits. Desplat’s imagination ran as wild as Anderson’s, creating an ensemble of taiko drums, recorders, saxophones and male choir, along with the slightly more conventional piano,...
- 10/31/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Quite a legendary entry in the history of Japanese cinema, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s “A Page of Madness” was lost for 45 years, until it was rediscovered by the director in his storehouse in 1971. However, the print existing today is missing nearly a third of what was shown in theaters in 1926, while the fact that it does not contain intertitles, since it was screened with the presence of a benshi (source: Aaron Gerow (2008). A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan), makes it quite difficult to follow, even more due to its avant-garde and experimental nature. Its cinematic impact however, cannot be denied in any way.
Having secured a distribution contract from Shochiku, Kinugasa formed the Kinugasa Motion Picture League, an endeavor that almost broke him financially, to the point that the actors of “A Page of Madness”, had to help paint sets,...
Having secured a distribution contract from Shochiku, Kinugasa formed the Kinugasa Motion Picture League, an endeavor that almost broke him financially, to the point that the actors of “A Page of Madness”, had to help paint sets,...
- 5/19/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Western authority on the culture of Japan, his adopted homeland
Donald Richie, who has died aged 88, wrote extensively on Japan, his adopted homeland after his arrival in 1947 with the Us occupation forces. He was best known for his books on cinema, including The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (1959), the first major English-language study of the subject, co-written with Joseph L Anderson; The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1965); Ozu: His Life and Films (1974); and A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (2001). Richie played a pivotal role in introducing the director Yasujiro Ozu to foreign audiences and curated, in 1963, the first international Ozu retrospective, at the Berlin film festival. In 1983, he received the first Kawakita award, for individuals or organisations that have contributed to Japanese film culture.
Though recognised as the most important figure in introducing Japanese cinema to the west, Richie saw himself as a writer foremost and a film critic secondarily. His...
Donald Richie, who has died aged 88, wrote extensively on Japan, his adopted homeland after his arrival in 1947 with the Us occupation forces. He was best known for his books on cinema, including The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (1959), the first major English-language study of the subject, co-written with Joseph L Anderson; The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1965); Ozu: His Life and Films (1974); and A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (2001). Richie played a pivotal role in introducing the director Yasujiro Ozu to foreign audiences and curated, in 1963, the first international Ozu retrospective, at the Berlin film festival. In 1983, he received the first Kawakita award, for individuals or organisations that have contributed to Japanese film culture.
Though recognised as the most important figure in introducing Japanese cinema to the west, Richie saw himself as a writer foremost and a film critic secondarily. His...
- 2/21/2013
- by Jasper Sharp
- The Guardian - Film News
Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty has nothing to do with fairy tales. Instead, this quiet Cannes Film Festival honoree is an adaptation of Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata’s novella “House of the Sleeping Beauties” (1961), in which wealthy old gentlemen visit a brothel to pay for the privilege of sharing a bed with a willingly-drugged young lady of the evening.
The meticulous, high-class manor is essentially a fancy bed and breakfast for people who prefer their pillow adorned with an unconscious prostitute. Fine dining in pressed tuxedos and pretentious fireside discourse over brandy is flanked by half-nude women in lingerie, and precedes a prim madam named Clara (Rachael Blake in a high bun and low-plunging neckline) taking each John into a bedroom and telling him, “You’ll be safe here. There’s no shame. No one can see you.”
Clara also reiterates the only rules. No physical marks. No penetration. In this way,...
The meticulous, high-class manor is essentially a fancy bed and breakfast for people who prefer their pillow adorned with an unconscious prostitute. Fine dining in pressed tuxedos and pretentious fireside discourse over brandy is flanked by half-nude women in lingerie, and precedes a prim madam named Clara (Rachael Blake in a high bun and low-plunging neckline) taking each John into a bedroom and telling him, “You’ll be safe here. There’s no shame. No one can see you.”
Clara also reiterates the only rules. No physical marks. No penetration. In this way,...
- 12/14/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
by Vadim Rizov
Australian university student Lucy (Emily Browning) walks into a gleamingly white lab designed to visually sterilize the unpleasant biological realities under examination. A young doctor greets her, offers perfunctory thanks for agreeing to serve as a test subject, and carefully threads a tube down her throat; Lucy's gagging sounds don't evince so much as a glance of concern from a female scientist in the background. The connotations of forced fellatio in an immaculate setting serve as a shorthand summary of Sleeping Beauty: dispassionate experiments in sexual objectification.
Taking up the titular occupation involves Lucy knocking herself out for the night with unspecified herbs under madam Clara's (Rachael Blake) watchful eye, naked and unconscious while being manipulated in any way the male client pleases short of penetration. The sleeping beauty figure isn't a new one, spurring elderly male narrators to meditation in Yasunari Kawabata's thrice-filmed short...
Australian university student Lucy (Emily Browning) walks into a gleamingly white lab designed to visually sterilize the unpleasant biological realities under examination. A young doctor greets her, offers perfunctory thanks for agreeing to serve as a test subject, and carefully threads a tube down her throat; Lucy's gagging sounds don't evince so much as a glance of concern from a female scientist in the background. The connotations of forced fellatio in an immaculate setting serve as a shorthand summary of Sleeping Beauty: dispassionate experiments in sexual objectification.
Taking up the titular occupation involves Lucy knocking herself out for the night with unspecified herbs under madam Clara's (Rachael Blake) watchful eye, naked and unconscious while being manipulated in any way the male client pleases short of penetration. The sleeping beauty figure isn't a new one, spurring elderly male narrators to meditation in Yasunari Kawabata's thrice-filmed short...
- 11/30/2011
- GreenCine Daily
Known as a novelist first and foremost, author and debut film-maker Julia Leigh wanted to ask the question, what would it be like to be a ‘sleeping beauty’, after reading two novellas by Yasunari Kawabata and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Officially selected at Cannes 2011, Leigh’s film, Sleeping Beauty, is a haunting portrait of Lucy (played by Emily Browning), a young university student drawn into the mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire. Lucy takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty, where drugged, Lucy must be absolutely submissive to the erotic desires of old men. But her work starts to bleed into her daily life as she develops an increasing need to find out what happens to her when she is asleep.
Julia tells us about the origins of her ideas, Jane Campion’s involvement, and working with Emily Browning, how a certain scene shocked her, and gives her reaction to...
Officially selected at Cannes 2011, Leigh’s film, Sleeping Beauty, is a haunting portrait of Lucy (played by Emily Browning), a young university student drawn into the mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire. Lucy takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty, where drugged, Lucy must be absolutely submissive to the erotic desires of old men. But her work starts to bleed into her daily life as she develops an increasing need to find out what happens to her when she is asleep.
Julia tells us about the origins of her ideas, Jane Campion’s involvement, and working with Emily Browning, how a certain scene shocked her, and gives her reaction to...
- 10/11/2011
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There are two kinds of bad films that actually feel fun to hate. One of them is the loud, shallow, flashy blockbuster breed, which will Always have its defenders and whose gripes are usually reoccurring. That species is hard to spot at festivals. The kind that does make festival appearances, however, is the shallow, vain, pretentious thing, and these come in all kinds of micro-varieties though always self-content. This is not to be confused with bad films that meant well and make you feel bad for hating, I will get to Always Brando in the future. But for today, let us talk about Australian big-deal Julia Leigh’s directorial debut, Sleeping Beauty, a film that is almost as pretty as it is completely pointless.
Moreso based on Yasunari Kawabata’s The House of the Sleeping Beauties than the popular fairy tale, Emily Browning, whose butt you may remember from Sucker Punch,...
Moreso based on Yasunari Kawabata’s The House of the Sleeping Beauties than the popular fairy tale, Emily Browning, whose butt you may remember from Sucker Punch,...
- 9/27/2011
- by Zack Kotzer
- DorkShelf.com
Updated through 5/15.
"'Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina is a temple.' With these words, Sleeping Beauty establishes the ground rules and sets the scene for a bizarre sexual nightmare." The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw: "It is technically elegant, with vehemence and control, though often preposterous, with the imagined classiness of high-end prostitution and art-porn cliches of secret sexiness in grand chateaux: shades of Eyes Wide Shut. Author-turned-director Julia Leigh has certainly made an assured debut, which evidently owes nothing to Jane Campion who has 'presented' this movie in some kind of Executive Mentor capacity. Instead, Leigh aims for the occult ritual of Buñuel and the formal exactitude of Haneke: rigorously framed and composed shots."
"n telling the story of a girl falling into the most eerily art-directed prostitution ring this side of a Freemason hazing ceremony, Leigh's way revisionist fairytale bluntly points out the ways in which...
"'Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina is a temple.' With these words, Sleeping Beauty establishes the ground rules and sets the scene for a bizarre sexual nightmare." The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw: "It is technically elegant, with vehemence and control, though often preposterous, with the imagined classiness of high-end prostitution and art-porn cliches of secret sexiness in grand chateaux: shades of Eyes Wide Shut. Author-turned-director Julia Leigh has certainly made an assured debut, which evidently owes nothing to Jane Campion who has 'presented' this movie in some kind of Executive Mentor capacity. Instead, Leigh aims for the occult ritual of Buñuel and the formal exactitude of Haneke: rigorously framed and composed shots."
"n telling the story of a girl falling into the most eerily art-directed prostitution ring this side of a Freemason hazing ceremony, Leigh's way revisionist fairytale bluntly points out the ways in which...
- 5/15/2011
- MUBI
Reviewed by Aaron Hillis
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Julia Leigh
Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie and Peter Carroll
Australian novelist Julia Leigh makes the uncanny leap to assured debut filmmaker with formal visual chops with “Sleeping Beauty,” a rich, thorny and haunting portrait of female self-searching through self-negation (or more accurately, why liberation cannot be found in passivity) that comes couched in an abstract, psychosexual nightmare. Already proving divisive but also one of the most talked-about films appearing in Cannes’ main competition, this mysterious and technically graceful descent into the rabbit hole of radically fetishized prostitution is intellectually titillating but creepily, resolutely unnerving in its anti-eroticism.
Bringing to mind “Belle de Jour” — and more directly, Yasunari Kawabata’s novella “House of the Sleeping Beauties,” which was previously adapted as a 2006 film of the same name — Leigh’s story centers on petite, porcelain-skinned university student...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Julia Leigh
Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie and Peter Carroll
Australian novelist Julia Leigh makes the uncanny leap to assured debut filmmaker with formal visual chops with “Sleeping Beauty,” a rich, thorny and haunting portrait of female self-searching through self-negation (or more accurately, why liberation cannot be found in passivity) that comes couched in an abstract, psychosexual nightmare. Already proving divisive but also one of the most talked-about films appearing in Cannes’ main competition, this mysterious and technically graceful descent into the rabbit hole of radically fetishized prostitution is intellectually titillating but creepily, resolutely unnerving in its anti-eroticism.
Bringing to mind “Belle de Jour” — and more directly, Yasunari Kawabata’s novella “House of the Sleeping Beauties,” which was previously adapted as a 2006 film of the same name — Leigh’s story centers on petite, porcelain-skinned university student...
- 5/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Aaron Hillis
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Julia Leigh
Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie and Peter Carroll
Australian novelist Julia Leigh makes the uncanny leap to assured debut filmmaker with formal visual chops with “Sleeping Beauty,” a rich, thorny and haunting portrait of female self-searching through self-negation (or more accurately, why liberation cannot be found in passivity) that comes couched in an abstract, psychosexual nightmare. Already proving divisive but also one of the most talked-about films appearing in Cannes’ main competition, this mysterious and technically graceful descent into the rabbit hole of radically fetishized prostitution is intellectually titillating but creepily, resolutely unnerving in its anti-eroticism.
Bringing to mind “Belle de Jour” — and more directly, Yasunari Kawabata’s novella “House of the Sleeping Beauties,” which was previously adapted as a 2006 film of the same name — Leigh’s story centers on petite, porcelain-skinned university student...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Julia Leigh
Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie and Peter Carroll
Australian novelist Julia Leigh makes the uncanny leap to assured debut filmmaker with formal visual chops with “Sleeping Beauty,” a rich, thorny and haunting portrait of female self-searching through self-negation (or more accurately, why liberation cannot be found in passivity) that comes couched in an abstract, psychosexual nightmare. Already proving divisive but also one of the most talked-about films appearing in Cannes’ main competition, this mysterious and technically graceful descent into the rabbit hole of radically fetishized prostitution is intellectually titillating but creepily, resolutely unnerving in its anti-eroticism.
Bringing to mind “Belle de Jour” — and more directly, Yasunari Kawabata’s novella “House of the Sleeping Beauties,” which was previously adapted as a 2006 film of the same name — Leigh’s story centers on petite, porcelain-skinned university student...
- 5/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Award winning film maker Edmund Yeo has been one of the key forces in the rising Malaysian indie film wave, serving as editor on some key titles and helping out in the scene in general. Having spent the last few years living in Tokyo, Yeo has been diving into the works of author Yasunari Kawabata and adapting them to film. His latest such effort is The White Flower, a beautiful, meditative bit of work assembled from still photographs, La Jetee style.
Yeo has been good enough to pass along the first trailer for his latest short, which you can find below.
Yeo has been good enough to pass along the first trailer for his latest short, which you can find below.
- 8/4/2010
- Screen Anarchy
I’ve sort of followed Malaysian Edmund Yeo’s work and development as a filmmaker over the years. The first time I saw one of his works was his student film, Girl Disconnected, made two years ago, and I was left unimpressed ... but not unaffected. Although technically, the film left much to be desired, there was something about Yeo’s vision that was strong enough to leave an impression, and he clearly was reaching for a certain level of poetry, mood and atmosphere. But his efforts were clearly hindered by limited budget, resources and manpower.
Now, fast-forward two years to the present, and Yeo is currently living in Tokyo and making more films there. His latest effort, Kingyo (Goldfish), is based on Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1924 short story, Canaries, and boy, has Yeo improved by leaps and bounds. That poetic mood that Yeo was reaching for two years ago...
Now, fast-forward two years to the present, and Yeo is currently living in Tokyo and making more films there. His latest effort, Kingyo (Goldfish), is based on Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1924 short story, Canaries, and boy, has Yeo improved by leaps and bounds. That poetic mood that Yeo was reaching for two years ago...
- 5/31/2009
- by Machine Girl
- Screen Anarchy
One of the fascinating things about watching the emerging indie-drama film scene in Malaysia is how incredibly communal the movement is. One of the more prominent players in recent years is Woo Ming Jin, whose The Elephant And The Sea won raves on the international festival circuit and now Woo is repaying his Elephant co-producer Edmund Yeo by producing Yeo’s short film Love Suicides.
Inspired by a Yasunari Kawabata short story. Set in an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman’s relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of abuse and self-destruction when she begins to receive a series of strange and mysterious letters from her long-absent husband.
I’ve had the chance to see Yeo’s film and hope to see it out on the festival circuit before too long because it is one impressive piece of work that deserves a broad audience. We’ve...
Inspired by a Yasunari Kawabata short story. Set in an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman’s relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of abuse and self-destruction when she begins to receive a series of strange and mysterious letters from her long-absent husband.
I’ve had the chance to see Yeo’s film and hope to see it out on the festival circuit before too long because it is one impressive piece of work that deserves a broad audience. We’ve...
- 4/5/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
In the Bedroom: 'House of Sleeping Beauties' mysteriously erotic, but somewhat disappointing It's a longtime friend (Maximilian Schell) who recommends to Edmond (Vadim Glowna) this strange bordello, a place where a man can spend the night in a bed alongside a beautiful young woman. The catch and core secret at the heart of "House of Sleeping Beauties," a sensual adaptation of Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata's sixties novella, is that the women are sound asleep and do not wake up. Edmond enjoys their beauty and tenderness over repeated visits but grows determined to find out the secret behind these beautiful sleeping women. His curiosity, paired with lingering sorrow from the death of his wife and daughter fifteen years ago, may prove to be his downfall.
- 11/19/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
In the Bedroom: 'House of Sleeping Beauties' mysteriously erotic, but somewhat disappointing It's a longtime friend (Maximilian Schell) who recommends to Edmond (Vadim Glowna) this strange bordello, a place where a man can spend the night in a bed alongside a beautiful young woman. The catch and core secret at the heart of "House of Sleeping Beauties," a sensual adaptation of Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata's sixties novella, is that the women are sound asleep and do not wake up. Edmond enjoys their beauty and tenderness over repeated visits but grows determined to find out the secret behind these beautiful sleeping women. His curiosity, paired with lingering sorrow from the death of his wife and daughter fifteen years ago, may prove to be his downfall.
- 11/19/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
House of Sleeping Beautiesby Steve Ramos, Writer In the Bedroom: 'House of Sleeping Beauties' mysteriously erotic, but somewhat disappointing It's a longtime friend (Maximilian Schell) who recommends to Edmond (Vadim Glowna) this strange bordello, a place where a man can spend the night in a bed alongside a beautiful young woman. The catch and core secret at the heart of "House of Sleeping Beauties," a sensual adaptation of Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata's sixties novella, is that the women are sound asleep and do not wake up. Edmond enjoys their beauty and tenderness over repeated visits but grows determined to find out the secret behind these beautiful sleeping women. His curiosity, paired with lingering sorrow from the death of his wife and daughter fifteen years ago, may prove to be his downfall. Vadim Glowna, a veteran actor and director in his native Germany, adapts, directs and stars in "House of the Sleeping Beauties...
- 11/19/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
In the Bedroom: 'House of Sleeping Beauties' mysteriously erotic, but somewhat disappointing It's a longtime friend (Maximilian Schell) who recommends to Edmond (Vadim Glowna) this strange bordello, a place where a man can spend the night in a bed alongside a beautiful young woman. The catch and core secret at the heart of "House of Sleeping Beauties," a sensual adaptation of Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata's sixties novella, is that the women are sound asleep and do not wake up. Edmond enjoys their beauty and tenderness over repeated visits but grows determined to find out the secret behind these beautiful sleeping women. His curiosity, paired with lingering sorrow from the death of his wife and daughter fifteen years ago, may prove to be his downfall.
- 11/19/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
by indieWIRE (November 13, 2008) Based on Yasunari Kawabata's novel, Vadim Glowna's "House of Sleeping Beauties" follows Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, and who is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women who never awaken. The German film is being released stateside by First Run Features, and opens at the Quad Cinema in New York this Friday, November 14. indieWIRE talked to Glowna about the film and its U.S. release.
- 11/13/2008
- by peter
- indieWIRE - People
by Kristi Mitsuda (November 12, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]
Intended as a meditation on mortality and morality, Vadim Glowna's adaptation of a Yasunari Kawabata novel simultaneously strives towards portentous poeticism and thriller intrigue, but falls more into tawdry B-movie territory instead. Written, directed, and produced by the German filmmaker, who also stars as protagonist Edmond, "House of the Sleeping Beauties" follows a man in the literal and figurative winter of his life. Edmond begins to visit the titular maison upon the advice of longtime friend Kogi (Maximilian Schell), who creepily persuades him by saying, "I only feel really alive when lying beside someone somnolent."...
Intended as a meditation on mortality and morality, Vadim Glowna's adaptation of a Yasunari Kawabata novel simultaneously strives towards portentous poeticism and thriller intrigue, but falls more into tawdry B-movie territory instead. Written, directed, and produced by the German filmmaker, who also stars as protagonist Edmond, "House of the Sleeping Beauties" follows a man in the literal and figurative winter of his life. Edmond begins to visit the titular maison upon the advice of longtime friend Kogi (Maximilian Schell), who creepily persuades him by saying, "I only feel really alive when lying beside someone somnolent."...
- 11/12/2008
- by peter
- Indiewire
By Neil Pedley
There is plenty of (semi)lighthearted fare at the art house this week with Danny Boyle tracking a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" whiz kid in Mumbai, Arnaud Desplechin looking at a family reunion in France and a Bollywood musical playing out in Miami, followed by films that are distinctively more "hardcore," whether that refers to Harry Potter fans or elderly curmudgeons. Oh, and there's also some globetrotting carnage with our man Craig -- Daniel Craig.
"B.O.H.I.C.A."
If this debut effort from "Melvin Goes To Dinner" producer turned writer/director D.J. Paul is to be believed, the best way to support our brave boys serving overseas is to send them some sunscreen and a truckload of Sudoku books. Marooned in the middle of the Afghan desert guarding a radio tower, four army reservists (Adam Rodriguez, Nicholas Gonzalez, Kevin Weisman, Brendan Sexton III) do battle with the...
There is plenty of (semi)lighthearted fare at the art house this week with Danny Boyle tracking a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" whiz kid in Mumbai, Arnaud Desplechin looking at a family reunion in France and a Bollywood musical playing out in Miami, followed by films that are distinctively more "hardcore," whether that refers to Harry Potter fans or elderly curmudgeons. Oh, and there's also some globetrotting carnage with our man Craig -- Daniel Craig.
"B.O.H.I.C.A."
If this debut effort from "Melvin Goes To Dinner" producer turned writer/director D.J. Paul is to be believed, the best way to support our brave boys serving overseas is to send them some sunscreen and a truckload of Sudoku books. Marooned in the middle of the Afghan desert guarding a radio tower, four army reservists (Adam Rodriguez, Nicholas Gonzalez, Kevin Weisman, Brendan Sexton III) do battle with the...
- 11/10/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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