Ako

Reminded me a lot of Ken Loach's work. In a good way.

This movie fell flat to me and I was pretty much bored through much of it.

Caught me by surprise how fresh this is. Avant-garde formalism meet up with verite naturalism, and Teshigahara captures some effectively emotional content in the carefully paced rhythm of images.

More rote and ultimately flat than the director's other works. The more experimental parts - like the baking factory - are brilliant and seems like he's more at ease; the actual story and plot feels forced and arbitrary.

A day in the life of youth. After Ozu and Mizoguchi. Of a rote manufacturing job, of shenanigans and mating rituals. Avant-garde, cacophonous, but carefully paced and measured.

So cute... so sad...

All of Teshigahara's work incorporates unusual sound tricks, but here it's especially pronounced. Lots of jarring noise, and one key sequence is underscored entirely by wind. There's a lot of new wave influence here (including a direct homage to 400 Blows) but occasionally it's almost overkill. More substance and less style would have been nice. Still, it's probably the only one of his shorts I would bother to revisit. Superb photography, particularly the shots from the bakery assembly line.

an immensely fanciful depiction of a day in the life of a young girl. almost too fanciful, but it's really beautiful at times, and the contrast between the beginning - a dizzying and ecstatic series of sound effects and camera cuts - and the finale - a rather intense and almost entirely quiet scene of aggressive sexual advance - is stark and even emotionally affecting. teshigahara's shorts are fascinating.

60lar gencliginden bir kesit.

I'm awake, but I feel like I'm dreaming. I want this dream to go on because night dreams are the opposite of the truth.