Originally part of a producer’s package consisting of three short films by different filmmakers, Shuji Terayama’s Kusa-meikyu is a slight, teasing thing that has some affinity to Strindberg’s expressionistic plays, such as “The Ghost Sonata” and A Dream Play, and Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai (1947), with its dreamlike, shifting appearances of the woman […]
Daily Archives: September 18, 2008
“It can’t be true,” Ángel, a professor and playwright, mutters as his eyes catch a photograph of his wife and daughters, all of whom have just died. Neighbor Terese, a schoolteacher young enough to be his daughter, thwarts Ángel’s suicide attempt and invites him to dinner with herself, her lover, Alberto, and their young daughter. […]
Dennis Grunes 