Cannes results

[Eija Margit Niskanen]

I agree with you. Kikujiro is certainly not a tight masterpiece like
Sonatine, which amongst Kitano's films I like best.
Eija

At 10:25 AM 5/24/99 +0900, you wrote:
>After all the publicity over Kitano's _Kikujiro_ showing in competition 
>at Cannes, it was Suwa Nobuhiro's _M/other_ that was the only Japanese 
>film to come away with an award, the FIPRESCI Prize.  Only two FIPRESCI 
>were given, one to a film in the official selection and one outside.  
>Suwa won the latter.  It was the producer Sento Takenori's second award 
>at Cannes (after _Suzaku_ two years ago).
>
>_Kikujiro_ was subject to a lot of hype in the domestic Japanese papers 
>and was actually quite well received at Cannes, especially by the 
>audience.  Many foreign papers listed it as one of the favorites for the 
>Palme d'or, but that went to a "dark horse," the Belgian film "Rosetta."  
>The jury, it was reported, went with art-for-art's-sake films this year.  
>Takeshi's sentimental road movie ended up with nothing, even though there 
>was talk he might at least get the best actor award.
>
>Personally, I don't the film was good enough to win an award, but others 
>might have other opinions.  I look forward, though, to seeing _M/other_.
>
>Aaron Gerow
>Yokohama National University
>KineJapan list owner
>For list commands: send "information kinejapan" to 
>listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Kinema Club: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html
>
>
>