Begging for Love

[moshi moshi]

> The papers reported that Hirayama Hideyuki's _Ai o kou hito_ (Begging for 
> Love) received the FIPRESCI Prize at the Montreal Film Festival.  Maybe 
> members from Montreal know a little more.

It did. The jury thought it had "a gripping and universal presentation of
the hard relationship between a mother and her daughter in a society in
evolution". The newspapers review i read qualified it of "melo". I
personaly think that if the story was indeed very melodramatic and the
acting not overly impressive (an opinion that changed when I realized that
Mieko Harada played the role of the mother and daughter in present times),
I was still impressed by the photography and I managed to spend a good
portion of the film crying (including the very first minute where nothing
really prompts it). A similar feeling had overtaken me when I watched
Ken Kumai's Aisuru last year.

In other asian-related awards at the festival, Takashi Kaiko won the award
of artistic contribution for his music in Marion Hansel's The Quary and
Wang Xueqi and Yang Liping won the grand prix special du jury for Sunbird.

I don't feel I have the cinematographic knowledge of other list
contributors but I will still try to post my review of the Japanese movies
I've seen at the festival later this week. Please tell me if they're
inappropriate.

Olivier Petitpas