Naomi Kawase - impressions

[Rodica-Livia Monnet]

in the recent NHK documentary she did last year,in which she talks about both 
Kyakarabaa and Hotaru,she is definitely much more articulate and self-confident 
in theorizing her work.L  En r?ponse ? Aaron Gerow <gerow at ynu.ac.jp>:

> >It does seem that Kawase is not very articulate in talking about her
> work,or 
> >about cinema in general.
> 
> This was definitely the impression I had when I first met Kawase back in
> 
> 1994. And even today, compared to directors like Aoyama, Suwa, Zeze, 
> Kurosawa, etc. who actually write theory and/or criticism, Kawase does
> 
> not intellectually articulate her films that well. Yet at the same time,
> 
> Kawase is definitely much more articulate than she was, having aged a 
> bit, learned a bit (from others, like Fukuda Katsuhiko), and had the 
> experience of talking a lot about her films. Thus her "cinema lesson" in
> 
> Alba, in which she talked by herself for 3 hours and fielded about 3 
> hours of questions, was actually very illuminating, even for a scholar
> 
> like myself.
> 
> Aaron Gerow
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