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The Ceremony
Mar 6—Mar 10, 2017
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RUN TIME: 133min
FORMAT: 35mm REEL to REEL
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March 2017
Monday March 06, 2017
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2017
series Oshima X Godard
Directed by Nagisa Oshima | 1971
With Kenzo Kawarazaki, Atsuko Kaku, Kei Sato.
Oshima’s typically perverse take on the Ozu-esque family drama chronicles the rigidly traditionalist Sakurada clan, whose attempts to maintain the outward appearance of respectability conceals a legacy of violence and incest. Serving as an allegory for the moral decay of postwar Japan, their collapse is illustrated in a series of elaborate ceremonies—weddings, funerals—that spiral into increasingly demented realms.
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