Norwegian Wood

[Peter Larson]

I will have to check it out. Hopefully the DVD version will preserve the
titling format.

Also, I will have to pay more attention to what happens in my town!

Pete

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> wrote:

>  In that Cannes thread, Pete mentioned,
>
> Sad to say that I missed Norwegian Wood at the Michigan Theater recently,
> speaking of.
>
>
> I was there. I liked it, especially the stunning use of landscape. But
> what intrigued me the most were the subtitles. The positioning harked back
> to the talkie era, when there were films that placed subtitles _between_
> lovers talking.
>
> Lovers talking account for about 90 percent of this film, and they're
> often shot in striking close-up. Tranh often puts the couple on one side of
> the frame or another, and the subtitler has chosen to follow them back and
> forth. S/he shortens the lines and places them squarely between the two
> people. It was a nice, abusive, technique.
>
> Markus
>
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