Nakashima's _Confessions_ screening in LA 1/6

[Anne McKnight]

  hi all,

short notice, but for people in town, this is screening tonight @  
UCLA. I was a big fan of _Shimotsuma monogatari_, and am interested to  
see where this one goes.

Has anyone read the novel (_Kokuhaku_)?

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Melnitz Movies and the Graduate Students Association present...

CONFESSIONS
Thursday, January 6th @ 7:30 PM

Japan's official Oscar entry for Best Foreign Film

Tetsuya Nakashima’s Confessions is one of Japan’s most important films  
of the year. Reigning the national box office for weeks, the film has  
seduced, frightened, provoked and moved audiences with the depth of  
its focus on the delinquency of a despairing youth. A stylized mixture  
of cruelty and compassion, Confessions deals with school violence,  
bullying, revenge and love, while a...lso addressing the miserable  
state of Japanese public schools, prejudices against HIV victims and  
the consequences of allowing teenage violence to go unpunished.

Based on the bestselling novel Kohuhaku by Kanae Minato, Confessions  
reveals the key mystery in its opening sequence and then focuses on  
the reasons that prompted this violent act and subsequent vendetta.  
Shifting between the point of view of the teenagers and the  
devastated, grieving teacher, Nakashima prevents the audience from  
taking sides, allowing the viewers room to come to their own  
conclusions about the dark acts they witness.

Official selection Toronto International Film Festival 2010, Official  
Oscar entry Best Foreign Film (Japan)

"Sustaining a fugue-like, intensifying counterpoint of sound and image  
over its 103 minutes, it's truly mesmerizing, and in terms of  
structure and articulation, hands down one of the most original films  
I've seen recently, affording a glimpse of another possible direction  
21st-century cinema might take." - Gavin Smith, FILM COMMENT

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii,  
Kaoru Fujiwara, Ai Hashimoto
Screenwriter: Tetsuya Nakashima
Cinematography: Shoichi Ato, Atsushi Ozawa
35mm, 106 minutes
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