Wednesday 22 June 2011

Ozu’s End of Summer

End of Summer, which I wasn’t quite so keen on as his other works: it had charm and the father figure in the central family (titular in the original Japanese) was an interesting central presence, but overall it was a strange little slice of life, typically Ozu in many ways but also too brief, too superficial, almost careless and formulaic, which is very unusual for him.

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