[KineJapan] Screening of Happy Hour at Yale

[Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan]

SPECIAL SCREENING OF HAMAGUCHI RYUSUKE’S AWARD-WINNING HAPPY HOUR
 

 
The product of workshops with mostly newcomers to film, Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s Happy Hour has won awards around the world, including a Best Actress award at Locarno shared by its four principals. Its leisurely but emotionally dense narration of the lives of four female friends as they confront changes in their work, domestic, and romantic lives, has earned praise around the world, including most recently in The New Yorker and The New York Times as the film was recently featured in a special run at MoMA in New York. The director will be present to discuss the film.
 
"Hamaguchi is a genius of scene construction, turning the fierce poetry of painfully revealing and pugnaciously wounding dialogue into powerful drama that’s sustained by a seemingly spontaneous yet analytically precise visual architecture...“Happy Hour,” a work of distinctly modern cinema, reaches deep into the classic traditions of melodrama—along with its coincidences and its violent contrasts—to revive a latent power for grand-scale observation through painfully close contact with the agonizing intimacies of contemporary life.”
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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