NANAYO (NANAYOMACHI)

Japan - 2008 - 35 mm, 90 min.

Director:
  NAOMI KAWASE
Sript: Naomi Kawase, Kyoko Inukai
Production: Kumie
Cast: Grégoire Colin, Kyoko Hasegawa, Jun Murakami
Section:
  AS-Asian Selection
Screenings:
Cine Rex - 01/05 - 20:30

Nanayo is the latest film from Naomi Kawase, the winner of the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with The Mourning Forest and BAFF 2003 with Shara. Making a change from Kawase's former films, which are all set in her native Nara, Nanayo was shot in a poetic village in Thailand. The movie details the human drama that unfolds as different people of different nationalities happen to come together under one roof in a house in the middle of a forest. Lacking a common language, the art of traditional Thai massage becomes the tool they use to communicate. Removed from the speed of modern life, they form a strange but happy pseudo family. Kawase works for the first time with a multi-national cast and staff, including Grégoire Colin (seen in Claire Denis’ Beau Travail and Erick Zonca's La vie rêvée des anges) and favorite’s Rivette and Truffaut Caroline Champetier as a director of photograhpy. Almost nothing is ever revealed about anyone's backgrounds but as usual in Naomi Kawase's movies, nature, atmosphere and landscape have much to say.

Presented together with Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona

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