Cannes Sonata

[rwdavisjr@ca.rr.com]

Greetings from Cannes. I saw Tokyo Sonata here and, as reported elsewhere, it's a very carefully made dysfunctional family drama that veers into comic and absurd territory in the second half, somewhat like KK's License to Live. The ending brought many in the audience to tears.

bd

---- Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote: 
> The jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film  
> Festival announced their awards and Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Tokyo Sonata,  
> the only Japanese film in the major sections this year, was given the  
> Jury Prize for the section.
> 
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