Paris Asia Film Series, "35 Shots of Rum"

Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Submitted by Andrea on July 22, 2009 - 9:57pm

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Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece Late Spring is transported to Paris' African immigrant community in this beautiful contemplation of the bond between a widowed father and his overly devoted daughter. Claire Denis' tribute to the Japanese master retains Ozu's basic storyline and compassionate sensibility, but also cleverly filters the original film's themes through a very different period and setting, and infuses it with her own powerful style. "To fall in love with it, viewers only have to be receptive to a movie that examines the ties that bind with grace, wit and depth," writes David Fear in Time Out New York. (Dir.: Claire Denis, France, 2008, 100 min., French and German with English subtitles)