[KineJapan] Minamata review

[Gerow Aaron]

Apparently Siglo did help out by lending films, etc. I was wondering if Tsuchimoto appears as well.

Here’s one review that is rather generous.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/21/minamata-review-heartfelt-look-at-disaster-that-struck-japanese-town

Aaron

> 2020/02/22 午前7:14、Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>のメール:
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> I wonder if Tsuchimoto makes an appearance? 
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> https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/minamata-review-johnny-depp-1203509223/ <https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/minamata-review-johnny-depp-1203509223/>
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> “A sledgehammer treatment of many of the same issues so elegantly addressed in Todd Haynes’ recent “Dark Waters” (a domestic industrial-negligence saga all but overlooked in theaters last fall), “Minamata” features several jazzed-up white-knuckle sequences in which Gene, Aileen and other activists — including a charismatic organizer played by the great Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada — trespass in hospital wards and research labs where the Chisso Corp. patients are being treated for methylmercury contamination.
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> Chisso makes for a powerful adversary that has both the police and local goons in its pocket, a massive chemical company that dumps its toxic byproducts directly into the water supply. Levitas sanitizes the waste water Gene observes, presumably to make the thick sludge he actually documented in 1971 seem more credible. But when it comes to violent confrontations — including an attack that leaves Gene badly bruised and bandaged for the taking of his impactful “Tomoko in Her Bath” photograph — Levitas shows no such restraint, leaning on master composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (in top form) to amplify the fundamental integrity of Smith’s anti-corporate exposé“
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