Wakamatsu Koji's "United Red Army"

[Mark D. Roberts]

On Oct 23, 2007, at 3:48 AM, M Arnold wrote:

> I wouldn't really be surprised (or disappointed) to find  
> "pedestrian sentiment" in a Wakamatsu Koji film. If we're going to  
> make comparisons to earlier work, we might wonder why the director  
> of Simpler Than a Kiss, Scrap Story, Netorare Sosuke, and pop idol  
> music videos has made a movie so full of violence. . . As I  
> understand it SY is just one of many projects O'Rourke has been  
> involved in over the years, and Wakamatsu personally wanted him to  
> do the music.

Well, I must admit ignorance of the other projects O'Rourke has done,  
and so I was thinking SY and came up puzzled. Of course, that's a  
failing on my part, and likely something annoying to musicians: fans  
who are familiar with one small part of their work and then blithely  
expect something along those lines.

My point about the music is really the way it's scored in some parts  
of the film more than the music itself. The effect is just very odd,  
like two very different emotional registers coming together. I'd be  
quite curious to hear a reaction from someone who understands this  
better, or any information about how the film as scored.

> Is it just my imagination or is there some kind of Wakamatsu  
> retrospective going on in Paris now?

Wakamatsu's "When the Embryo goes ... " is currently screening at  
Espace Saint-Michel, and this past sunday there was a screening  
followed by a public debate entitled "Against Censorship and for  
Freedom of Expression" with Jean Streff, Jean-Baptiste Thore, Herv?  
Berard, and Fernand Garcia.

Was anybody on the list there?

M
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