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<p class="ydpaa7b4ba8MsoNormal">Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s <i>Aku wa sonzai shinai</i> / <i>Evil
Does Not Exist</i> has won the main prize of best film in competition, at the
London Film Festival. <a href="https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-festival/news/award-winners-67th-bfi-london-film-festival" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="enhancr_card_8302052668">Award winners announced at 67th BFI London Film Festival</a>
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<p class="ydpaa7b4ba8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>The Festival announcement said:-</span></p>
<p class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669paragraphyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Drive
My Car director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new drama sees a community fighting to
preserve its principles and the integrity of their natural world. A camping
site development that’s under way in the peaceful </span></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">village</span></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">
of <span style="border-bottom: transparent;"></span></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669spellingerrorv2themedyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Mizubiki</span></span></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">
will forever change the community and surrounding environment. The investors
feel differently: ‘A little pollution won’t affect the water’. Driven by
Hamaguchi’s sonorous and poetic script, his drama, a microcosm of wider
concerns, burrows deep into the pressing issues of value and survival but never
loses faith in humanity.</span></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669eopyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669paragraphyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The
Official Competition jury said: <i>“The Official Competition jury has chosen
Evil Does Not Exist as the </i></span></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">London</span></i></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">
Film Festival Best Film for 2023. Subtle, cinematic and underscored by fully <span style="border-bottom: transparent;"></span></span></i></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669spellingerrorv2themedyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">realised</span></i></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669normaltextrunyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">
performances, Hamaguchi’s assured drama supersedes the sum of its parts. It is
both a lyrical portrait of family and community, and a nuanced consideration of
the ethics of land development. Amidst a strong competition the jury is
unanimous in our admiration!”</span></i></span><span class="ydpaa7b4ba8yiv5861024669eopyiv5861024669scxw56765069yiv5861024669bcx0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI""></span></p>
<p class="ydpaa7b4ba8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">I saw it at San Sebastian,
where it was not in competition but in the ‘Perlak’ strand, picked pearls from
elsewhere. It is certainly my favourite Hamaguchi film. In the protagonist,
when he is teaching tracking skills to his young daughter, I saw something of Dersu
Uzala, not Kurosawa’s film particularly but the historical character depicted
by Vladimir Arsenyev. That may be just me, as I read it not so long ago, in
english translation. Assuming the film was screened using the same, uncredited, english
subtitles, the award is even more of an achievement as, I thought, the
translation was sometimes off-register.</p>
<p class="ydpaa7b4ba8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Memorable strengths for me included the realistically messy public
meeting that develops the story. Putting the autocrat / CEO of the development
company only in remote meetings was another realistic touch of unaccountability. Did Hamaguchi need
to make the development company a talent agency ?<span> </span>He could have saved that for its own story ??</p>
<p class="ydpaa7b4ba8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Anyway, congratulations.</p>
<p class="ydpaa7b4ba8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Roger</p>
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