. . . How often we die in each other, in the moist cavern of the vagina, a death that is softer than sleep: the senses pause, gorged. . . . — “Love—Being an Essential Word” (translation: Mark Raishbrook) In her mid-forties, Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann journeyed back to South America—she was born in Lima, […]
Daily Archives: September 20, 2008
Shohei Imamura’s snowy black comedy, Akai satsui, revolves around Sadako, the uneducated common-law wife of Riichi, who hasn’t married her because of her inferior status; Sadako had been housemaid to Riichi’s family. Masaru, the couple’s kindergarten-age son, was registered to his paternal grandparents for the same reason. (Sadako’s persistence officially corrects this.) Riichi, a university […]
From Clifford Odets’s play, adapted and directed by George Seaton, The Country Girl investigates an instance where the power structure of a marriage is very different from what it appears to be—one of the themes that Akira Kurosawa would mine far more brilliantly in his Macbeth film, Cobweb Castle or Throne of Blood (1957). Indeed, […]
Dennis Grunes 