desert moon & a masterpiece

[Christophe CRISON]

"Desert Moon" received mixed reviews here in Paris. For once, I agree  with 
them : the movie is very heavy (in a nutshell : it's not right to live in 
material world, it's better to live among chickens!). Very qucikly, i became 
bored by these Bobo's state of minde(you can't call them yuppie anymore).

The picture reminded me of Edward Yang's YiYi which was also a very 
moralistic. At least, Desert Moon is a very well crafted movie : beautiful 
light and production design. Too bad, Shinji Aoyama didn't stuck to Eureka's 
strong point : the less the dialogue, the better.

I was the luckiest man in the world to see Kinugasa's "Kuruta Ipiji" ("a 
page of madness"). Technically, it impressing for a movie made in the 20's. 
In the tradition of 'impressionist cinema', "a page of madness" is landmark 
in japanese cinema.

I met there a german wowan who wrote a book dedicated to that picture, and 
the silent movie era in Japan. She also introduced the movie, and its 
extraordinary ressuraction.

Anyone should be interested in details can contact me.


Christophe.


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