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A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

2016
2h 59m
Nanami is an apathetic, part-time teacher in Tokyo, bullied by her students for having a quiet voice. She spends time on a social network and meets a young man. They are soon engaged, but Nanami has too few guests for the wedding. She meets Amuro, a jack-of-all-trades who pads her guest list with actors. Her marriage quickly falls apart and she starts working more part-time jobs. Amuro offers her a housekeeping job in an old mansion, but she soon realizes the job isn't what it seems. (Summary by hisblob)
Directed by:
Shunji Iwai Shunji Iwai
Written by:
Shunji Iwai Shunji Iwai
Starring:
Tomoko Mariya Gô Ayano Gô Ayano Sôkô Wada Cocco Haru Kuroki
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AKA:
Rippu van winkuru no hanayome
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
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A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

2016
2h 59m
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moraesfelipemoraesfelipe
Rated 31 Dec 2017
80
85th
Melodrama for the social media era in contemporary Japan. If happiness has a limit, as Nanami's friend/boss/bride says, then this is what this film is all about. The nature of what is real and fake is just a matter of mere perspective. A world where you pay or get paid to live relationships is not very different to the lonely world we already live in. It's amazing how this refuses to pose as a Spike Jonze's moralistic sci-fi and always prefers the longer path of life as it is lived on screen.
Rated 31 Dec 2017
hisblobhisblob
Rated 17 Sep 2016
70
47th
It's profoundly depressing to watch the director of Swallowtail and All About Lily Chou-Chou make an almost-average drama (albeit with some interesting weirdness). The protagonist is hopelessly naive and there's no masterful control over the more difficult scenes. It drags on to three hours, but tells far less story than prior works. The camera is stuck at one zoomed-in focal length and the music is a few odd notes. On display: the sad transience of fruitful collaboration and filmmaking genius.
Rated 17 Sep 2016
peyrinpeyrin
Rated 26 Jun 2020
90
96th
Arguably the most overlooked film from one of the most overlooked directors working today. In which living is nothing more than a series of performances with total strangers, and the most lasting relationships are the ones that persist after the curtain falls. A culmination of Lily Chou-Chou's exploration of identity in the Internet age, Hana and Alice's unlikely friendships, and the strange underground world of Swallowtail, all tied together with his trademark pathos.
Rated 26 Jun 2020
glumpy99glumpy_99
Rated 15 Apr 2017
47
9th
Simple story of a down-trodden school-teacher is inexplicably given the epic three hour treatment; engaging enough for its first hour as the screenplay sets up interesting conflicts you assume are going to pay off later on -- but it's all for nothing; characters and plot threads are dropped without explanation, and our hero's journey is aimless, repetitive and never moves forward. Aside from some interesting camera angles in the hotel room scene, not even the craftsmanship can save it.
Rated 15 Apr 2017
aflickeringAFlickering
Rated 05 May 2018
7
94th
not just a cautionary tale about the artificiality/mutability of identity in the virtual age; in a society which subsumes the individual into its prescribed narratives, that artifice is revealed as vital for self-actualisation. given the plot of this unmoored drama (a shy, anonymous woman is flung from her ordinary life into a series of movie-ish twists with the help of a scheming director), iwai extends the point to art as well: there's nothing more real nowadays than finding oneself onscreen.
Rated 05 May 2018
lonewolf2003Lonewolf2003
Rated 05 Feb 2017
72
51st
Shunji Iwai's return to live action feature after almost a decade unfortunate isn't as good as his previous stuff. The movie is hard to pin down, it start of as a romance, than turns in a drama, then into a mystery thriller, then into a drama again. Although shifting genres can be a good thing, in this case the movie becomes a bit aimless after awhile and only shift back into focus at the end.
Rated 05 Feb 2017

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