Salaud, on t’aime

August 24, 2014 / Clodjee / 2 Comments

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“Un photographe de guerre et père absent, document.write(“”); qui s’est plus occupé de son appareil photo que de ses quatre filles, coule des jours heureux dans les Alpes avec sa nouvelle compagne. Il va voir sa vie basculer le jour où son meilleur ami va tenter de le réconcilier avec sa famille en leur racontant un gros mensonge.”

“Jacques, a retired war photographer, is attempting to live a peaceful life in the Alps. With a new girlfriend, Nathalie, he appears content, but his old friend Frédéric knows better. There is a little matter of four daughters, each one from a different conquest, each one estranged from him, and each leaving their shadow on Jacques’s emotional life. Realizing that reconciliation is the thing Jacques craves most, Frédéric, a doctor, concocts a little lie to convince the daughters to visit their absentee father. Well, not so little. In fact, it’s a really big lie, and as the family gathers, as accounts are settled through tears and laugher, the lie gets harder and harder to retract.”

(Texte tiré du programme / Text from the festival’s program)

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Lelouche est un incontournable alors il m’était impossible d’y échapper. Il nous offre ici un film presqu’autobiographique. C’est l’histoire d’un photographe qui s’est tellement donné à sa carrière qu’il n’a jamais été présent pour ses quatres (ou cinq) enfants (toutes des filles) qu’il a eu chacune avec des femmes différentes. Cependant, alors qu’il songe à la retraite après avoir connu tant de succès, il a des regrets pour cette vie de famille qu’il n’a jamais eut et que ses filles lui refusent maintenant.

“J’ai eu la chance d’avoir sept enfants avec cinq femmes différentes et je me suis dit que ça pourrait faire un bon sujet pour un film,” nous affirme le cinéaste.

C’est du Lelouche à son meilleur où l’on croque dans la vie à pleine dents. Un beau film, riche en émotions. Lelouche se dit d’ailleurs n’être qu’un reporter d’émotions, mais ici il va plus loin. Nous seulement il nous fait vivre les émotions de ses personnages, des états d’âme complexes et parfois difficiles à vivre, mais il en profite pour manipuler les nôtres!

Lelouche lors de la conférence de presse de Salaud, on t’aime (photos: MM)

Toutefois, j’ai lu sur Facebook des commentaires qui démolissent complètement le film (bon, tout les goûts sont dans la nature et chacun a droit à son opinion mais il y parfois des gens qui n’aiment vraiment rien parce que c’est leur nature grognonne ou simplement pour être iconoclaste). Johnny Holliday n’est peut-être pas un acteur (mais quelle bouille, alors!) par contre dans la vie les amoureux ne sont pas toujours super passionnés — surtout quand on a eut de multiples relations (bon, peut être que Sandrine Bonnaire n’était pas très expressive mais était-ce le rôle ou sa performance?). Moi je ne suis pas du genre à décortiquer les films mais j’adopte plutôt le point de vue du cinéphile : le film m’a captivé, ému et j’ai eu du plaisir à la regarder. C’est une belle histoire (que j’ai trouvé crédible), avec de superbes images pour me faire oublier un instant où je suis et qui je suis. Je ne demande rien de plus.

Lelouche sur le tapis rouge arrivant pour la cérémonie d’ouverture du FFM (Photos: CJP)

C’est donc un film à voir, pour ses émotions certes, mais aussi pour sa superbe photographie et son casting stellaire : Johnny Holliday, Eddie Mitchell, Sandrine Bonnaire, Valérie Kaprisky et je n’ai pas pu m’empêcher de remarquer la jeune Jenna Thiam (Hiver) qui jouait Léna dans la série télé “Les revenants” (2012).

Vous pouvez voir Lelouche présenter son film à partir de la minute 19:10 dans notre video de la cérémonie d’ouverture.
Salaud, on t’aime : France, 2014, 124 min.; Dir.: Claude Lelouch; Scr.: Claude Lelouch et Valérie Perrin; Phot.: Robert Alazraki; Ed.: Stéphane Mazalaigue; Mus.: Francis Lai, Christian Gaubert; Cast: Johnny Hallyday (Jacques Kaminsky), Eddy Mitchell (Frédéric), Sandrine Bonnaire (Nathalie), Irène Jacob (Printemps), Pauline Lefèvre (Été), Sarah Kazemy (Automne), Jenna Thiam (Hiver), Agnès Soral (Bianca), Valérie Kaprisky (Francia). Film projeté en ouverture du Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal le 21 août, 2014 (Cinema Impérial, 19h30 — le cinéma était pratiquement plein!) dans le cadre du segment “Hors concours”.
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FFM – Cérémonie d’ouverture

August 23, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Voici notre video de la cérémonie d’ouverture du FFM 2014 (sur Vimeo)
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Here’s our video of the 2014 MWFF Opening Ceremony (on Vimeo)

L’image du chat-medi

August 23, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Mitsou (2014-08-08)
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/clodjee/14825405568" target="“new”" title="Mitsou by Clodjee Pelletier, document.write(“”); on Flickr”>

FFM – album photos

August 22, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Voici notre album photos du Festival des films du monde 2014 sur Flickr
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Here’s our 2014 Montreal World Film Festival pictures gallery on Flickr

Pour la libre négociation!

August 22, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Pour plus d’information, document.write(“”); s.v.p. lire :
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L’image du mer-fleurie

August 21, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Bouquet d’été (2014-07-24)
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/clodjee/14825101897" title="Summer bouquet by Clodjee Pelletier, document.write(“”); on Flickr”>

Petit film du chat-medi / Little cat-urday’s movie

August 16, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

C’est le temps du festival des films du monde alors pourquoi pas un petit video de chats? On y voit Saya et Caramel en train de jouer ce matin…
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It’s time for the World film festival so why not a little cat video? Here’s Saya & Caramel at play this morning…

(filmed with an iPhone 4S and edited on iMovie 10.0.4)

July in review

August 16, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

July was a busy month, document.write(“”); but in a good way. During the first half of the month I took twelve days of vacation, but didn’t do much (at least it felt that way). The highlight was certainly the quick trip I took with my family to the Saguenay.
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For most of the month the weather was generally nice, rather hot but with only a few thunderstorms. At least I could stop worrying about my garage being flooded since the city finally repaired the sidewalk (although it took a while: I directly complained to city hall on June 20th, they did the markings on the 26th, then they’ve cut the sidewalk a week later, removed the old sidewalk on July 8th, installed the formwork on the 11th, poured the concrete on the 17th, did the asphalt on the 24th and gave the landscaping finishing touch on the 30th! Six weeks! Our taxes at work… but, hey, I am not complaining since I tried for three years to get it done). Now, after a day-and-half of rain and then three cold and overcast days (around 15’C!), we are wondering if this is already the end of the summer…

The other notable events of the last month were the return of the family of cats in our backyard (the mother and her three kittens now called Chausson [Socks], Mitsou [Honey] and Kuro [Blacky]), a knee injury (I fell hard on my left knee: it was swollen for a few days, I limped for a week and now, several weeks later, it hurts only when I put pressure on it or kneel—the problem is that I have to often crouch or kneel at my job; however, I went to the clinic earlier today [a wait of 4.5 hours for a 2-minute consultation!] and it is apparently a bursitis, a prepatellar bursitis to be precise, so they gave me some anti-inflammatory drug and told me to stay off my knee for at least a week) and my wife and I went to visit the Fabergé exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

The situation at work didn’t really improved. I could never get use to such chaos, absurdity and inconsistency. It is sometimes so irritating and exasperating, even exhausting (with all the kneeling, running, box carrying and furniture moving—it feels like running a marathon and learn joggling at the same time: I just can’t do it), but I must do my best to ignore it, shut up and endure because I can’t change job for another year. Grin and bear it, as my wife says. Or maybe I’ll just get used to it… Such unhappiness is not good for my moral or even my health. It’s maddening! However, even if I fume and cry, there’s not much I can do but wait and hope for better days. So I take one day at a time… and try to pour my energy into something else.

Luckily, it seems that reduced commuting time left me less tired, so I was able to write a lot in the last month. I wrote comments on a few anime & manga related titles: manga (Joséphine Impératrice vol. 2), references (Dico Manga, GraphoLexique du Manga, Anime Classique Zettai, Manga: The complete guide, and language (Chineasy). However, I wrote mostly movie-related posts as I was starting to prepare for the Montreal World Film Festival. A month or two before the festival, I like to start posting festival news (Fantasia’s first, second and third wave of announcements, their Japanese line-up, as well as the MWFF announcements, programmation and Japanese line-up) and commenting on last year’s movies (Blindly in love, Mourning recipe, The Kiyosu conference, and Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi; there are two more to come later) in order to help generate interest. Later in fall, I plan to shift my interest toward Japanese literature…

On the world stage, people’s attention went mostly toward the situations in Ukraine (pro-russian rebels shooting down a commercial airplane) and in Gaza (Israel invading once more Palestinian territories). The latter is rather infuriating. I agree that it is a complex situation and that both sides bears the blame, but the arguments of self-defence (come on: tanks & missiles v. sling shots & homemade rockets?), human shields (they don’t hide behind civilians: they are ALL civilians and must share the same tiny space as it is the most densely populated area in the world!) or “they started it” (it depends on how many generations you want to go back: to my understanding it all started when Israel refused to share what was BOTH their ancestral land) are rather fallacious. So, I don’t understand why so many people would unconditionally defend Israel… On the opposite side, the fact that I call a spade a spade doesn’t make me an anti-Semite. In a democratic world, criticism should be embraced not extinguished. I just think it is sad that a nation with such a beautiful and tragic history & culture would knowingly commit apartheid and genocide since they have lived through it themselves. It makes it even more morally inexcusable! If their god has send them wandering into exile as a test, I guess they have miserably failed as they have not understood yet that we are all brothers in adversity and that we must learn to share. After all, Earth is rather small (and getting smaller) and such lesson is fundamental to everyone‘s survival… Unfortunately, I fear that the only way to put an end to this would be for the international community to strongly interpose itself in-between the belligerents, to set new borders and make Jerusalem into an international city. But it’s quite utopian. If not, we could always nuke both parties, because, the way it is now, it will only end with the total annihilation of either one nation.

Anyway, I found lots of interesting news stories (on technology, sciences, popular culture, local interests, etc.) and I am gladly sharing with you those 175+ links (scraplinking, remember?):

Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

New Jo-Jo’s Bizarre Adventures (ICv2)
Digital Comics Sales Grow to $90 Million in 2013 (ICv2)
Live-Action Patlabor’s Part 4 Trailer Streamed (ANN, Youtube)
Montreal’s Fantasia Hosts Western Premiere of Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno Film (ANN)
Comics and Graphic Novel Market Reaches $870 Million (ICv2)
June BookScan: Top 20 Graphic Novels (ICv2)
Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese Under New IDW EuroComic Imprint (ICv2)
Japanime Games Goes Exclusive in Canada (ICv2)
Suspendu et ligoté dans un arbre: des pique-niques insolites (Journal de Montréal)
comiXology is Making DRM Optional… After Making it Irrelevant (ICv2)
Drawn & Quarterly Adds Shigeru Mizuki’s Hitler, Tadao Tsuge’s Trash Market Manga (ANN)
Harmony Gold to Release Robotech-Super Dimension Fortress Macross DVD Set (ANN)
2014 Eisner Award Winners (ICv2)
Les Contrées Sauvages de Jirô Taniguchi, chez Casterman (Animeland)
Les principales annonces du Comic-Con 2014 (Le Monde)
Harmony Gold Cancels Robotech Academy Kickstarter (ANN)
Steve Jobs is a Japanese manga star (TUAW)
July BookScan: Top 20 Graphic Novels (ICv2)
Hayao Miyazaki to Return? (ICv2)
Top 25 Manga Properties for Spring 2014 (ICv2)
Babymetal @ Heavy Montreal: Miel et venin (Voir)

Top 300 Graphic Novels Actual for July 2014 (ICv2)
Japan’s most-killed samurai stuntman wins immortality at last (The Guardian)
The Wind Rises Home Video Listed in November in N. America (ANN)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

How to rip DVDs on OS X and get movies onto your Mac media server (iMore)
How to partition your Mac to test OS X Yosemite (iMore)
Apple Plans Mid-September iPhone 6 and iOS 8 Event (MacTrast)
OS X Yosemite Public Beta Launches (MacTrast)
Apple reportedly discussing mobile wallet plans with credit card companies (9 to 5 Mac)
Apple’s e-wallet could debut as soon as this fall, possibly with ‘iPhone 6’ (Apple Insider)
iPhone 6 Launch Rumors (Business Insider)
OS X Yosemite Public Beta Now Available via Mac App Store Redemption Codes (Mac Rumors, OS X Beta Program)
Apple might be launching its mobile wallet with the iPhone 6 (The Verge)
OS X Yosemite Beta: First Impressions, Installation Tips, Known Issues, and Bug Fixes (Mac Rumors)
X Yosemite Public Beta Release is Tomorrow, Here’s How to Prepare (OSX Daily)
Apple’s BookLamp acquisition aims to beat Amazon at its own game (Cult of Mac)
OS X Yosemite Design: The good and the bad (TUAW)
Unreleased ‘Mid 2014’ Mac Mini Referenced on Apple Support Page (Mac Rumors)
Revamped Apple TV Debut Likely Delayed Until 2015 Due to Negotiation Difficulties (Mac Rumors)
Apple TV overhaul not expected to debut until 2015 (9 to 5 Mac)
Unreleased ‘Mid 2014’ Mac mini and 27-in iMac Briefly Referenced on Apple Support Page (MacTrast)
Apple now rumored to launch iPhone 6 on October 14 (CNET)
New “Dreams” ad focuses on the many uses of the iPhone 5s (TUAW)

Apple will reportedly announce its next iPhone on September 9th (Engadget)
Apple iPhone event scheduled for September 9 (TUAW)
Why The iPhone 6 Will Be The Device Of The Year (TechCrunch)
Healthy Future for HealthKit (iPhone Life)

Books, Digital Edition & Libraries

Hachette Rejects Amazon Proposal (ICv2)
Plusieurs magazines québécois fragilisés (Le Devoir)
Uk’s first YA book convention is a hit (The Telegraph)
Should you finish every book you start? (The Oberserver)
Amazon unveils iOS-compatible Kindle Unlimited service; all the books you can read for $10-month (TUAW)
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Un FFM affaibli mais debout (Le Devoir)
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?Les Lundis Mous (Début des moyens de visibilité) (lien)
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The MWFF schedule is available

August 15, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

The schedule for the 2014 Montreal World Film Festival is now available on the festival web site [as a downloadable PDF file]!
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The Cinema Under the Stars program will take place after all. In a press release, document.write(“”); the festival announced that the free outdoor screenings will be back again this year for twelve nights. Beginning August 21 and running nightly at 8:30 pm through Labour Day (September 1), the Festival will show a wide selection of popular movies on the esplanade of the Place des Arts.

The festival also announced that it will be showing many italian movies again this year. As always the Montreal World Film Festival has a bumper crop of Italian films to show, this year more than ever. Starting with the president of the jury, Sergio Castellitto, and continuing through various sections of the Festival, lovers of Italian cinema will have plenty to celebrate. Thirteen films, produced or co-produced by Italy, are on show and Pupi Avati will be on hand for the premiere of his new film along with a large delegation of Italian film people. More details in the full press release.

Last Tuesday, the festival announced in a press release the details of the 45th Student Film Festival. Organized within the framework of the Montreal World Film Festival, the Student Film Festival, held August 23 to 27, 2014, has this year two competitive sections, comprising 26 Canadian films and 60 international films respectively. The winning films will share 6 prizes, including the Norman McLaren Prize for best Canadian film and the jury award Most Promising Director. Founded by Serge Losique in 1969, the Student Film Festival is the oldest film festival in Canada and was incorporated into the World Film Festival in 1985. The reputation of the Montreal festival has attracted many student films from around the world and this year, to accommodate the abundance of excellent foreign productions, an international competition was established and it features films from 18 countries!

Finally, a press release also detailed all the ticket options for the movie-goers attending the festival. Booklets of tickets and individual tickets to films of the Festival itself will go on sale August 16 to 21, from noon to 7 pm, at the box offices of the Imperial Cinema and the Cinéma du Quartier Latin. Festivalgoers may also purchase tickets online through Admission beginning August 22. The Festival run August 21 through September 1.

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L’image du mer-fleurie

August 14, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Multiples oeillets d’Inde en août
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Various Tagetes in August (2014-08-10)
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Japanese movies at the MWFF 2014

August 10, 2014 / Clodjee / 1 Comment

In a press conference last tuesday, document.write(“”); the Montreal World Film Festival announced the programming of its 38th edition, which will be held from August 21st to September 1st. The festival will present 350 films including 160 feature-length movies (of which 100 will be world or international premieres, and 32 North American premieres), and 190 short films. 51 of those fiction features-length movies will be first features (the first film of its director), of which 19 will be in competition. It is less than the previous years but this rich selection from 74 countries is nevertheless quite a feat considering that the festival has been denied nearly one million dollars in subsidies this year! (On this subject, see my post [in french] “Le FFM se prépare à une 38e année difficile”). For more programming details, please read my post “Programmation FFM 2014” [in french] or check the full press release on the festival web site.
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The World Film Festival of Montreal will take place from August 21st to September 1st 2014, at the Imperial (1430 Bleury – Metro Place des Arts) and Quartier Latin (350 rue Emery – Berri-UQAM) theatres. Tickets will be available from August 16 at noon at the offices of the Imperial (CI) and the Latin Quarter (QL) theatres, and ticketing networks from August 22. Individual tickets are $ 10, Passports are $ 100 and Cinephile Card is $ 250. Booklets of 10 coupons redeemable against individual tickets are available for $ 70. More details on the festival website: www.ffm-montreal.org.

This year the festival is offering us ~~eleven~~ twelve Japanese features movies and ~~three~~ five short films: two feature films [and one short film] in the “World competition” category, three in “Out of competition”, five feature films and ~~three~~ four shorts in the “Focus on World Cinema” [all those short films are conveniently shown together] and ~~one~~ two feature films in the “Tribute to Michael J. Werner” [there’s another movie shown as a tribute to Alain Resnais]. There are no Japanese movies this year in “First Films World Competition”, “Documentary” or the “International selection of the Student Film Festival” categories.

At the press conference announcing the festival’s programming, Serge Losique reiterated his love for Japanese cinema. He tells us that Japan is one of the most film-loving countries in the world and has given us lots of great filmmakers (especially Akira Kurosawa). He tells us also that a Japanese film in competition this year will be accompanied by a host of top Japanese actors. The delegation for this film will include forty-five people, in addition to numerous representatives of Japanese media (from five television stations and eight newspapers)! [You can see the clip of Losique talking Japanese cinema from 1:05 to 2:00 mins on the press conference video that I posted on Vimeo and on my “Programmation FFM 2014” post [in french]]

More information on the festival’s japanese movies can be found on the Facebook page of the Canada-Japan Cultural Exchange magazine, Coco-Montreal.

Update [2014-08-15]: The schedule for the 2014 Montreal World Film Festival is now available on the festival web site [as a downloadable PDF file]!

Update [2014-08-20]: Details on each of the Japanese movies shown at the festival are now available on the festival’s web site.

After the jump, you will find a list of all the Festival’s Japanese movies with description [taken from the festival’s program] and supplemental links (more details and links will be added as the information become available):

The World Competition

Cape Nostalgia (???????? / Fushigina Misaki no Monogatari / The Tale Of A Cape): Japan, 2014, 117 min; Dir.: Izuru Narushima; Scr.: (based on Akio Morisawa novel); Prod.: Sayuri Yoshinaga; Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga (Etsuko), Hiroshi Abe (Koji), Yuko Takeuchi, Tsurube Shofukutei, Takashi Sasano, Eiko Koike, Shota Shunputei, Arata, Takeo Nakahara, Renji Ishibashi.

“Etsuko Kashiwagi runs the Cape Café in a peaceful little town looking across the sea to distant Mt Fuji. It is the town’s favourite meeting place, where farmers, fishermen, hospital workers, clergy, and even the occasional police officer, gather to taste Etsuko’s special brew and trade gossip. The two most important things in Etsuko’s life are her jack-of-all-trades nephew Koji and the spring water she brings every day from a small island nearby. In every cup Etsuko brews is a prayer for the well-being of her customers, and coffee at her café is an uplifting experience for all. Koji is 45, and devoted to Etsuko, who lives in a shack beside her café. He is hot-tempered, quick to jump to conclusions and a bit of a troublemaker. The winds of change have started to blow through the placid existence of the Cape Café.” (from the Festival’s press release)

Schedule: Fri 8/29 9:00 CI; Fri 8/29 19:00 CI; Sat 8/30 14:00 CI.

The light shines only there (????????? / Soko nomi nite Hikari Kagayaku): Japan, 2014, 120 min.; Dir.: Mipo O; Scr.: Ryo Takada (based on the novel by Yasushi Sato); Cast: Gou Ayano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Masaki Suda, Hiroko Isayama, Taijiro Tamura, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Hino.

“ Tatsuo has given up working and is idling his life away. One day at a Pachinko parlour, he gets to know a coarse but friendly young man, Takuji. Tatsuo accepts Takuji’s invitation and follows him home, which turns out to be a rundown, isolated house. It is here that Tatsuo meets Takuji’s older sister, Chinatsu. They feel a quick mutual attraction and become close, but Chinatsu’s life is difficult as she struggles to support her family. Even so, Tatsuo remains steadfast in his love for Chinatsu, and his unwavering feelings begin to sway her. Since finding a connection with Chinatsu, Tatsuo’s reality quietly begins to regain its colour…” (from the Festival’s press release)

Schedule: Sun 8/31 9:00 CI; Sun 8/31 19:00 CI; Mon 9/01 14:00 CI.

The World Competition — Short Films

Kemukujara: Japan, 2014, 13 min.; Dir.: Akihito Nonowe, Isao Sano, Konoka Takashiro. No dialogue. First episode of the stop motion experimental animation Keblujara. [Facebook]
Schedule: Wed 8/27 9:00 CI; Wed 8/27 19:00 CI; Thu 8/28 14:00 CI.

World Great (Out of Competition)

Our family (??????? / Bokutachi no Kazoku): Japan, 2014, 117 min.; Dir.: Yuya Ishii; Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Mieko Harada, Sosuke Ikematsu, Kyozo Nagatsuka, Mei Kurokawa, Yusuke Santamaria, Shingo Tsurumi, Yuka Itaya, Mikako Ichikawa.

The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Schedule: Sun 8/24 11:30 QL15; Mon 8/25 21:30 QL15; Tue 8/26 14:10 QL15.
A drop of the grapevine (??????? / Budou no namida / lit. “Tears of Grapes”): Japan, 2014, 117 min.; Dir. & Scr.: Yokiko Mishima; Cast: Yo Oizumi (Ao), Shota Sometani (Roku), Yuko Ando (Erika), Tomorowo Taguchi, Tomoya Maeno, Lily, Kitaro,
Ren Osugi, Kyoko Enami.

In Hokkaido, Ao grows grapes for wine while his younger brother, Roku, tends to the wheat field inherited from their father. Then a mysterious women enters their lives.

Schedule: Sat 8/30 11:40 QL16; Sat 8/30 19:00 QL16; Sun 8/31 14:20 QL16.
A courtesan with flowered skin (???? / Hanayoi dochu): Japan, 2014, 102 min; Dir.: Keisuke Toyoshima; Cast: Yumi Adachi (Asagiri), Yasushi Fuchikami (Hanjiro), Ena Koshino, Yoko Mitsuya, Hanako Takigawa, Ayano Tachibana, Saki Takaoka, Tomochika, Kanji Tsuda.

In 1860s Japan, popular courtesan Asagiri is about to be freed from her indentured service. One day at a local festival she meets a young artisan, Hanjiro, an encounter that changes her destiny.

Schedule: Thu 8/28 10:00 QL15; Thu 8/28 19:00 QL15; Fri 8/29 17:00 QL15.

Focus on World Cinema

Fly, Dakota, Fly! (??! ??? / Tobe! Dakota): Japan, 2014, 109 min; Dir.: Seiji Aburatani; Scr.: Kuniho Yasui, Naoyuki Tomomatsu; Phot.: Shigeru Komatsubara; Prod.: Kiyoshi Mizuno; Cast: Manami Higa, Masataka Kubota, Akira Emoto, Yoriko Douguchi, Kumi Nakamura, Miyoko Yoshimoto, Yukijiro Hotaru, Yukiyo Sono, Minoru Sawatari, Mark Chinnery, Dean Newcombe, Toshiki Ayata, Bengal.

January 1946. A British military plane carrying diplomats makes a crash landing on the beach in a small village on a remote Japanese island. The pilots need help but the locals were enemies just half a year ago.

Schedule: Sat 8/30 13:00 QL15; Sat 8/30 21:30 QL15; Sun 8/31 17:00 QL15.
Blossom bloom (????? / Sakura saku): Japan, 2014, 107 min.; Dir.: Mitsutoshi Tanaka; Scr.: Masashi Sada (based on his short story), Eriko Komatsu; Phot.: Takeshi Hamada; Prod.: Norihisa Ohara, Ryosuke Otani; Cast: Naoto Ogata (Shunsuke Osaki), Kaho Minami (Akiko), Tatsuya Fuji (Shuntaro), Karen Miyama, Masato Yano.

With a highly paid job, a beautiful wife, and two independent teenage kids, not to mention his own father living with him at home, Shunkuze, 47, seems to have it all. But appearances can be deceiving.

Schedule: Fri 8/22 19:20 QL12; Sat 8/23 11:40 QL12; Sun 8/24 16:40 QL12.
A sparkle of life (Sansan): Japan, 2014, 81 min.; Dir.: Bunji Satoyama; Phot.: Shogo Ueno; Ed.: Hitomi Katô; Mus.: Sayaka Asaoka, Asuka Matsumoto; Cast: Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Akira Takarada, Natsue Hyakumoto, Michiyo Miyata, Kanami Tagawa, Masatake Takei, Kei Takushima, Kazuko Tauchi, Yoichi Toyama, Toshiko Tsumura, Gaku Yamamoto.

Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, 77 year-old Tae Tsurumoto decides to find a new life partner. Her family and friends try to dissuade her.

Schedule: Wed 8/27 19:20 QL14; Thu 8/28 12:30 QL14; Fri 8/29 14:10 QL14.
One third (??????? / Sanbun no ichi): Japan, 2014, 119 min.; Dir.: Hiroshi Shinagawa; Scr.: Hiroshi Shinagawa (based on a novel by Hanta Kinoshita); Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Koki Tanaka, Ryuichi Kosugi, Mika Nakashima, Yosuke Kubozuka, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Ryo Kimura, Sho Aikawa, Mitsu Dan, Ayumi Shimozono.

Three small-time crooks desperate to turn their lives around manage to pull off a successful bank hit in broad daylight. But they aren’t the only ones after the loot.

Schedule: Fri 8/22 14:30 QL15; Sat 8/23 21:50 QL15; Mon 8/25 10:00 QL15.
Tokyo: The city of glass (???????????? / Tôkyô: Koko wa Glass no Machi): Japan, 2014, 100 min.; Dir.: Kazuhiro Teranishi; Scr.: Oroba Irie & Kazuhiro Teranishi; Phot.: Shigeru Iwamatsu; Ed.: Kumiko Arai; Mus.: Naoto Okabe; Cast: Atsushi Kimura, JK, Tomoko Nakajima.

A graduate student who runs a bar in Shinjuku N-chome, Tokyo’s gay district, meets a Korean man and falls in love, but a 20-year-old homicide case makes this more than a love story.

Schedule: Fri 8/22 19:00 QL15; Sat 8/23 10:00 QL15; Sun 8/24 14:00 QL15.

Focus on World Cinema — Short Films

All He Knows Right: Japan, 2014, 5 min.; Dir.: Akihito Nonowe, Isao Sano, Konoka Takashiro. No dialogue. Second episode of the stop motion experimental animation Keblujara. [Facebook]
No return on perishables (Koi ha kangaeruna, ai ha kanjiro): Japan, 2014, 18 min.; Dir.: Takatsugu Naito.
Suicide volunteers (Tokko Shigan): Japan, 2014, 25 min.; Dir.: Kenshow Onodera. [IMDb]
When the sun falls (Hi-wa-ochiru): Japan, 2014, 39 min.; Dir.: Yuji Kakizaki. [IMDb]
All four shorts are shown together:
Schedule: Tue 8/26 21:40 QL13; Wed 8/27 16:20 QL13.

Tributes

Norwegian wood (??????? / Noruwei no mori): Japan, 2010, 128 min.; Dir.: Tran Anh Hung; Scr.: Haruki Murakami (based on his novel) & Anh Hung Tran; Phot.: Pin Bing Lee; Prod.: Chihiro Kameyama, Shinji Ogawa; Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara, Tetsuji Tamayama, Kengo Kora, Reika Kirishima, Eriko Hatsune, Tokio Emoto, Shigesato Itoi, Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi. Shown as part of the tribute to Michael J. Werner.

Tokyo, the late 1960s. Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe’s personal life is similarly in tumult.

Schedule: Sat 8/30 21:30 QL12; Sun 8/31 16:10 QL12.
Tôkyô Sonata (????????): Japan, 2008, 119 min.; Dir.: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Scr.: Max Mannix, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sachiko Tanaka; Phot.: Akiko Ashizawa; Ed.: Kôichi Takahashi; Mus.: Kazumasa Hashimoto; Cast: Kazumasa Hashimoto, Kyoko Koizumi, Kai Inowaki, Yu Koyanagi, Koji Yakusho, Haruka Igawa. Shown as part of the tribute to Michael J. Werner.

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company, then detours into the comic, the macabre and the sublime.

Schedule: Thu 8/28 16:30 QL12; Fri 8/29 16:30 QL12.
Hiroshima mon amour (???????? / Nij?yojikan no j?ji / lit. “Twenty-four-hour affair”): France / Japan, 1959, 90 min.; Dir.: Alain Resnais; Scr.: Marguerite Duras; Phot.: Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny; Mus.: Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco; Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud.

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

Schedule: Sat 8/30 19:20 QL11.

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Programmation FFM 2014

August 9, 2014 / Clodjee / 1 Comment

Lors d’une conférence de presse mardi le 5 août dernier le Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal a annoncé les grandes lignes de la programmation de sa 38e édition.
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On nous promet une sélection de qualité qui inclue environ 350 films (160 longs métrages et 190 courts métrages) en provenance de 74 pays. En plus de nous faire découvrir l’avenir du cinéma avec 51 premières oeuvres, document.write(“”); on y retrouvera une centaine de premières mondiales ou internationales et 32 premières nord-américaines. La programmation se divise en huit sections: la Compétition mondiale (32 films dont 13 courts métrages), la Compétition mondiale des premières oeuvres (19 longs métrages), les films Hors concours (17 longs métrages), Regards sur les cinémas du monde (77 longs métrages et 74 courts métrages), les Documentaires du monde (27 longs métrages et 7 courts métrages), les Hommages (dont 5 films en hommage à Michael J. Werner), le Festival du film étudiant: sélection nationale (26 courts métrages) et sélection internationale (60 courts métrages). De quoi plaire à tout les goûts!

Vous trouverez tous les détails de cette riche programmation dans le communiqué de presse (disponible aussi en anglais). Je vous recommande aussi de lire les commentaires que font Le Devoir (“Un FFM affaibli mais debout” par Odile Tremblay, 6 août 2014) et The Gazette (“Festival des films du monde acts globally” par T’cha Dunlevy, 5 août 2014) sur la programmation du FFM.

Vous pouvez également visionner quelques extraits de la conférence de presse sur Vimeo :

Bien sûr, avec le retrait de plusieurs subventions (à ce sujet voir mon billet “Le FFM se prépare à une 38e année difficile”, de même que le récent article du Devoir “L’incompréhensible assassinat du FFM” et l’éditorial de The Gazette du 6 août, “It’s time for Montreal’s main film festival to refocus” [en anglais]), il y aura des événements qui seront annulés ou dont l’avenir est encore incertain, comme les projections en plein air (le FFM cherche toujours un nouveau commanditaire) ou le sous-titrage bilingue des films en compétition (quoique la technologie rend maintenant cela plus facile et surtout moins coûteux). Toutefois, avec la diversité et la qualité habituelle de sa programmation, je ne suis pas sûr la plupart des amateurs fidèles du FFM voient vraiment une différence. Tout ce qu’ils veulent c’est voir de bons et beaux films et, pour cela, ils seront sûrement servi. Et, comme nous le rappel Serge Losique, le FFM est un festival très important, respecté à travers le monde. Il mérite donc toute notre attention et notre support.

Le Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal se tiendra du 21 août au 1er septembre 2014, aux cinémas Impérial (1430 rue de Bleury — Métro Place des Arts) et Quartier Latin (350 rue Emery — Métro Berri-UQAM). Les billets seront disponible dès le 16 août à midi aux guichets des cinémas Impérial et Quartier Latin, et en réseau de billetterie dès le 22 août. Les billets individuels sont $10, les Passeports sont $100 et la Carte Cinéphile est $250. Des carnets de 10 coupons échangeables contre des billets individuels sont également disponible pour $70. Plus de détails sur le site du festival: www.ffm-montreal.org.

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L’image du chat-medi

August 9, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Saya (2014-07-22)
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Fabergé

August 8, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Voici quelques photos de notre visite de l’exposition Fabergé au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal la semaine dernière. Cela ne rends vraiment pas justice à la splendeur des pièces exposées qu’il faut vraiment voir en personne…
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Here are some pictures from our visit last week to the Fabergé exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. This does not really do justice to the splendour of the exhibits that really must be seen in person…

L’image du mer-fleurie

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Sunflower / Tournesol
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My garden / Mon jardin (2014-07-25)
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L’Image du chat-medi

August 2, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Les nouveaux (et timides) chatons
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The new (and shy) kittens (2014-08-01)
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Découverte: Les contrées sauvages

August 1, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

“L’auteur de Quartier lointain nous propose un périple à travers les grands espaces.”
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“Au milieu d’une nature cruelle et ses créatures hostiles, document.write(“”); l’homme est la proie de tout, et surtout de lui-même.”

“Dans cette anthologie en deux tomes, nous découvrons une facette encore méconnue en France de l’oeuvre de Taniguchi : l’époque où, nourri de bande dessinée européenne, il s’essayait à la BD de genre en y insufflant ce qui est aujourd’hui encore sa marque de fabrique : un immense talent de raconteur d’histoires.”

(Texte du site de l’éditeur)

Animeland nous apprend qu’un nouveau manga de Jirô Taniguchi devrait paraître en France cette automne!

Il s’agit de Les Contrées Sauvages (???? / K?ya yori / From Wilderness) une anthologie de onze histoires publiée au Japon en 2012 par Kobunsha — incluant “Nazuke enu mono” [??????? / Innommable] préalablement publié en 2010 par Kodansha dans Comic Box Amasia, ainsi que “K?ya o ayume” [????? / Le désert d’Ayume], “Rongunaifu” [?????? / Long couteau], “???” [?], “Geronimo” [?????], “Mori e” [?? / Vers la forêt], “Tsuki ni hoeru” [????? / Hurlant à la lune], “Saketa h?k?” [????? / Hurlemant déchiré], “Y?kara no mori” [?????? / La forêt de Yukar], “ Taka” [? / Le Faucon] et “Irataka no juzu” [??????? / Le Rosaire d’Irataka].

La version française devrait paraître chez Casterman (collection Sakka) en deux volumes dont le premier sortira en septembre.

Les Contrées Sauvages vol. 1, par Jirô Taniguchi. Paris: Casterman (collection Sakka), septembre 2014. 240 pgs, 13.95 €, ISBN: 9782203084438.

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Données sur les emprunts de livres

August 1, 2014 / Clodjee / 1 Comment

Un article dans la Gazette du 29 juillet fait une intéressante analyse des données sur les emprunts de livres dans les bibliothèques publiques de Montréal. L’auteur de cet article, document.write(“”); Roberto Rocha (dont la chronique Data Points se spécialise dans ce genre d”interprétation de données), fait ce qui me semble la première analyse indépendante des méta-data sur les bibliothèques publiques que la Ville de Montréal avait rendu publique il y a quelques années au sein de son “Portail de données ouvertes”. On y trouve les statistiques d’emprunt pour les 4,4 millions de documents des 45 bibliothèques de la ville collectées depuis leur inclusion dans le catalogue Nelligan (c’est-à-dire entre le 27 juin 2007 et le 30 août 2011). Le site n’indique pas avoir été mis à jour depuis mais pourtant M. Rocha donne des statistiques pour l’année courante…
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Les conclusions sont très étonnantes: il en ressort que la littérature jeunesse prédomine très largement les emprunts et tout particulièrement la bande-dessinée et les mangas ! Le top 10 des emprunts toutes catégories depuis le début de la compilation des données est le suivant:

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• Naruto (manga)
• Garfield (BD)
• Winx club (BD / novelisation)
• Les Légendaires (BD)
• Détective Conan (manga)
• Les Simpson (BD)
• One Piece (manga)
• Yu-Gi-Oh (manga)
• Fruits basket (manga)
• Caillou (livre d’images)

Toutefois, si l’on tient compte des différents volumes de chaque série et des variantes dans les titres on obtient un tableau un peu différent dont les trois premières positions sont occupées par les mangas Fruits basket, One Piece et la BD Les p’tits diables. On y retrouve trois autres mangas: Chocola & Vanilla (Sugar Sugar Rune) [4e position], Doraemon [5e] et Détective Conan [13e] ainsi que des séries télé comme Dexter [7e], Lost [10e] et The Sopranos [12e]. A noter la présence de la série de littérature jeunessse Psy malgré moi en onzième position.

Je suis fort heureux de constater que les jeunes usagés utilisent beaucoup les bibliothèques (toutefois il ne faut pas oublier que les jeunes n’ont pas l’exclusivité de la lecture de BD!) et que les mangas font si bonnes figures parmi les emprunts — peut-être qu’ils obtiendront finalement le respect qu’ils méritent! Malheureusement, l’article ne donne aucune statistique pour les titres de littérature jeunesse en tant que tel (excluant la BD et les documentaires). J’aurais été bien curieux de voir les titres jeunesses le plus lus tant en anglais qu’en français…

Le top 3 des romans anglais (fiction) inclus The girl with the dragon tattoo (Stieg Larson), Nine Dragons (Michael Connelly) et Fifty shades of Grey (E.L. James).

Le top 3 des romans français inclus A.N.G.E. (Anne Robillard), Mémoires d’un quartier (Louise Tremblay-d’Essiambre) et Aya de Yopougon (Marguerite Abouet).

Chose amusante, le documentaire anglais (non-fiction) le plus populaire est Driving a passenger vehicle alors que le documentaire français le plus populaire est… Conduire un véhicule de promenade ! Il est vrai que ces manuels pour les cours de conduite sont très empruntés.

Vous trouverez plus de détails (et les chiffres exacts) dans l’article lui-même (en anglais).

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Jury of the Montreal World Film Festival

July 31, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

The Montreal World Film Festival has announced that the jury of the 38th Festival will be presided by Italian actor and director Sergio Castellitto. The jury will also be made of Rachid Bouchareb (Franco-Algerian director-producer), document.write(“”); Andréanne Bournival (Quebec television programming manager), Fridirik Thor Fridriksson (Icelandic producer), Ana Torrent (Spanish actress) and Jane Zhang (Chinese pop singer and actress). (See the full press release)
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The festival has also announced that it will pay tribute to international distributor-producer Michael J. Werner, chairman of film sales of Fortissimo Films. The veteran America-born producer has been located in Hong Kong over the past two decades from where he guided the production and distribution of Asian films to markets around the world. As part of the tribute to Michael J. Werner, the Festival will show five recent films distributed and/or co-produced by Fortissimo: Tears of the Black Tiger directed by Wisit Sasanatieng (Thailand, 2000), Norwegian Wood, by Tran Ang Hung (Japan, 2010, adaptation of the famous Haruki Murakami’s novel), The Grandmaster by Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong, 2013) and the Canadian premieres of The Great Hypnotist, by Leste Chan (China, 2014) and Black Coal, Thin Ice by Diao Yinan (China / Hong Kong, 2014), this year’s Golden Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival. (See the full press release)

The only large competitive festival in North America accredited by FIAPF (the International Federation of Film Producers’ Associations), the 38th Montreal World Film Festival will run from August 21 to September 1, 2014.

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L’image du mer-fleurie

July 30, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Cosmos, document.write(“”); centre de l’Univers ? (Jardin avant, 2014-07-22)
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Cosmos, center of the Universe? (Front garden, 2014-07-22)

Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi

July 27, 2014 / Clodjee / 2 Comments

WARNING: May contains trace of spoilers! People allergic to the discussion of any plot’s elements before seeing a movie are strongly advised to take the necessary precautions for their safety and should avoid reading further.
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<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53330/pics/Case_of_Kyoko, document.write(“”); _Case_of_Shuichi-0001.jpg” target=”“new””>“Minamisanriku, Japan, was devastated by the tsunami of March 11, 2011, with most buildings destroyed by waves of 16 metres or higher, and over half the town’s population swept away or drowned. With 90% of the town gone, there’s no “home” there anymore for former residents Kyoko and Shuichi. For psychological reasons as well: left behind were a mother and a child. What does the future hold for the living?” (Text from the Festival’s program)

Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi feels like two movies in one. We follow the path of two characters, Kyoko and Shuichi, who never meet but nearly intersect at the end of the movie—only because they are from the same hometown of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture. Both of them have commit some sort of ”crime” that forced them to leave their home for Tokyo, where they try to rebuilt their life. Both of them are lonely and adrift, in search for something or someone to anchor their heart. In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, they both decide to go back home, to look for the loved one they left behind (her daughter, his mother).

Kyoko is very unhappy and works as an insurance agent to support her family. The competition amongst her coworkers is fierce and she ends up having an affair with her boss (and with some customers) in order to secure her employment. When this scandalous situation is revealed, she is blamed and shamed by her family. She has to leave her hometown. Can she improve her situation or is she condemned to succumb to the same pitfall?

Shuichi accidentally killed his abusive father in order to protect his mother. After serving time in a juvenile detention center, he finds a job in a small factory in Tokyo. He makes friends and slowly finds acceptance and redemption.

Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi is the fifth movie directed by actor Eiji Okuda (his first movie as director, Sh?jo (2001), and his third movie, A Long Walk (2006), were shown at the Montreal Film Festival). He likes small budget movies and instead of hiring big-name actors (probably to save money), the two main roles are played by his daughter (Sakura Ando) and son-in-law (Tasuku Emoto) — I am wondering if it is easier or harder to direct your own daughter; the quality of the performance is the same anyway it seems. The director was present at the festival but had unfortunately left by the time I screened the movie so I missed the opportunity to see him. The theatre was a little more than half full.

It is a good movie with nice photography and an introspective subject that succeeds nevertheless to capture the attention of the viewer. It reminds me a little of Claude Lelouch’s A man and a women: we expect Kyoko and Shuichi to meet in the end, but they don’t. However, it seems that they are destined to meet. We can only hope that they eventually do.

For more impression on this movie, I suggest reading Mark Schilling’s review in The Japan Times.
Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi (????????? / Kyoko to Shuichi no baai): Japan, 2013, 135 min.; Dir. & Scr.: Eiji Okuda; Phot.: Takahiro Haibara; Ed.: Manabu Shinoda; Mus.: Hibiki Inamoto; Prod.: Takahito Obinata, Miyako Kobayashi; Cast: Sakura Ando, Tasuku Emoto, Soko Wada, Ena Koshino, Takanori Takeyama, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Mitsuru Hirata. Film screened at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 29th, 2013 (Cinema Quartier Latin 12, 19h00) as part of the “ Focus on World Cinema” segment.
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Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi © 2013 Zero Pictures

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The Kiyosu Conference

July 26, 2014 / Clodjee / 1 Comment

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“In 1582, document.write(“”); before the unification of Japan, Nobunaga Oda was forced to take his own life at Honno-ji Temple during a violent revolt led by Mitsuhide Akechi. Following Oda’s death, the powers in Japan held the Kiyosu Conference — the “conference that changed the course of history” — to resolve the Oda clan’s succession of leadership and redistribute Mitsuhide Akechi’s territories. Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan’s first group-made political decision. In this film, director Koki Mitani, known especially for his comedies, gives us his unique interpretation of the intricate web of human relationships involved in this process as the brave general Katsuie Shibata and Hideyoshi Hashiba, who would later unify Japan, engage in a battle of wits, deceit and bargaining.” (Text from the Festival’s program)

The Kiyosu Conference is the 6th feature film by Koki Mitani, a director mostly known for his modern-day comedies (Suite Dreams [reviewed in PA #90: 74] and The Magic Hour were both shown at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2006 and 2008, respectively). It is his first attempt at a historical epic. It tells the story of what’s considered as the first political meeting of Japanese history. After the death of Nobunaga Oda in 1582, all the Oda clan power players (Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa, Tsuneoki Ikeda) agree to meet at the Kiyosu Castle in order to discuss his succession. Ensues a series of political intrigues, romances and plot twists which, added to the sheer number of characters (the leaders, their vassals and retainers, all with long Japanese names), makes it rather complicated to recount the whole story (for that the synopsis in the Festival’s program [above] is doing a good job).

You might think that such a serious and complex subject would be boring, but Mitani draws into his experience to create comic relief at regular intervals, so the movie carries a consistant light tone. I was actually quite surprised: I was expecting a historical saga and found what could be considered a comedy (somewhere in the movie there’s even a guy wearing a Groucho Marx moustache!). Some critics have seen in the movie a political satire, but I think it is simply the result of the awkward mix of drama and comedy that can often be found in Japanese movies.

All in all, The Kiyosu Conference is a powerful movie with an all-star cast. It is well-made (although a bit long), offer nice photography and an entertaining story that teaches us about Japanese history. In the end it is a very good movie experience (the theatre was a little more than half full). I would recommend you to see it if you can, but like most Japanese movies screened at the festival it is unfortunately not yet available in English (even one year later). If you want more comments on this movie I would recommend you to read also the reviews in The Japan Times and The Hollywood Reporter.
Kiyosu Kaigi ( ???? / The Kiyosu Conference ): Japan, 2013, 138 min.; Dir. & Scr.: Koki Mitani (based on his own novel); Mus.: Kiyoko Ogino; Phot.: Hideo Yamamoto; Ed.: Soichi Ueno; Prod. Des.: Yohei Taneda; Cost. Des.: Kazuko Kurosawa; Cast: Koji Yakusho (Katsuie Shibata), Yo Oizumi (Hideyoshi Toyotomi), Fumiyo Kohinata (Nagahide Niwa), Koichi Sato (Tsuneoki Ikeda), Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Susumu Terashima, Denden, Kenichi Matsuyama, Yusuke Iseya, Kyoka Suzuki, Miki Nakatani, Ayame Goriki, Minosuke Bandou, Kenji Anan, Shinpei Ichikawa, Shota Sometani, Eisuke Sasai, Keiko Today, Zen Kajiwara, Catherine Seto, Yoshimasa Kondo, Kazuyuki Asano, Kankuro Nakamura, Yuki Amami, Toshiyuki Nishida; Distr.: Pony Canyon Intl. Film screened at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 28th, 2013 (Cinema Quartier Latin 9, 19h00) as part of the “World Great” segment (Out of Competition).
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The Kiyosu Conference © 2013 Fuji TV / Toho

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L’image du chat-medi

July 26, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

La maman chat-de-gouttière est de retour avec ses trois minous!
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The alley cat mother is back with her three kittens!
(cour arrière / backyard, document.write(“”); 7/24/2014)

Mourning recipe

July 25, 2014 / Clodjee / 1 Comment

WARNING: May contains trace of spoilers! People allergic to the discussion of any plot’s elements before seeing a movie are strongly advised to take the necessary precautions for their safety and should avoid reading further.
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“When Ryohei’s wife, document.write(“”); Otomi, suddenly passes away, Ryohei is deeply depressed, without the strength to live. Two weeks after her death, a woman visits Ryohei and gives him a recipe book which was left by Otomi, a “recipe book” for a happy life. Meanwhile, Ryohei’s daughter Yuriko comes to visit him. Yuriko’s own marriage is about to end in divorce and she will have use for Otomi’s “recipe book”.” (Text from the Festival’s program)

This movie is the second adaptation of Yuki Ibuki’s book of the same title. It was her second novel (published in february 2010, it has unfortunately not been translated into english yet) and, as it quickly became a bestseller, it was first adapted into a four-episode television drama which aired on NHK between February 15 and March 8, 2011.

The important cultural element behind the story is that, in Japanese Buddhism (and Mahayana Buddhism in general), after the funeral (which occurs three or seven days after death) there’s another important ceremony held after seven weeks, on the 49th day. It seems that mourning is a slow process in Japan: it starts with preparing the body, changing the deceased’s name, holding a wake, then there’s the funeral and the cremation, followed by weekly praying and offering. Little by little, as it performs a kind of “karmic introspection”, the deceased’s spirit is moving away from the physical world until it is completely free from it. Then it achieves awakening (or enlightenment), which is a profound understanding of reality. The 49th day ceremony has for purpose to support the deceased in this transition into a new life and to celebrate it. Interestingly, this slow process also allows to mourners to get used to their loved one’s departure and this is this specific aspect that is the subject of the movie.

When Ryohei’s wife died, he was devastated. However, Otomi knew that her passing would deeply affect her family, particularly her husband, so she prepared an illustrated guide book for them. The handwritten recipe book is proposing activities (like cooking, cleaning and the basics of house keeping) for every day of the seven weeks of mourning, culminating with a big party for the family and friends! Otomi had been volunteering at the “Ribbon House”, a rehabilitation center for teenagers with difficulties, where she was teaching cooking and housework. She asked one of her students, Imoto “Imo” Sachie (a tanned blond with lots of make-up and weird clothing), to bring the book to her family. She does more than that as she stays to help, along with her Japanese-Brazilian friend Harumi (Haru aka Carlos Yabe).

At the same time, Ryohei’s daughter Yuriko (her mother died when she was a kid and Otomi was her step-mother) is depressed: she’s childless and her fertility treatment failed, she has to take care of her mother-in-law and she discovers that her husband is having an affair! She decides to leave her husband and go back home to help her father. She finds him already in good company. So, altogether with Imo and Haru, despite many difficulties, she’s helping her father going through the mourning recipes—which reveals being beneficial for everybody.

The story is a little complex to tell in more details than that, but it was a superb feel-good movie (a family drama with humour). The storytelling was beautiful, the acting excellent, it makes you think about how to live your life and, on top of it, it was quite entertaining. A good Japanese movie will always make you laugh or cry, and I did both so that makes Mourning Recipe an excellent movie. It was a popular screening since the theatre was packed (although it was a terribly tiny room with a capacity around one-hundred-fifteen, with no central alley and a floor with minimal angle, so the viewing experience was not optimal). It was the best movie I had seen so far at the festival last year. It is really worth seeing (unfortunately it seems to be available on dvd only in Japanese version).
Shijuukunichi no Reshipi ( ???????? / lit. “Recipe of 49 Days” / Mourning Recipe ): Japan, 2013, 130 min.; Dir.: Yuki Tanada; Scr.: Hisako Kurosawa (based on a novel by Yuki Ibuki); Phot.: Ryuto Kondo; Ed.: Ryuji Miyajima; Mus.: Yoshikazu Suo; Cast: Renji Ishibashi, Masaki Okada, Fumi Nikaidô, Hiromi Nagasaku, Taizo Harada; Distrib.: Gaga Corp. Film screened at the Montreal World Film Festival August 28th, 2013 (Cinema Quartier Latin 11, 16h30) as part of the “Focus on World Cinema” segment.
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Mourning Recipe © 2013 “Mourning Recipe” Film Partners

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L’image du mer-fleurie

July 23, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Criquet sur un oeillet d’Inde (2014-07-22)
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Grasshopper on a French marigold (2014-07-22)
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Voyage au Saguenay

July 23, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Un peu plus tôt en juillet j’ai fait un court voyage au Saguenay avec ma famille. On est passé par Québec, document.write(“”); a visité Tadoussac, fait une croisière dans le fjord du Saguenay, vu la petite maison blanche à Chicoutimi, trempé nos pieds dans le Lac Saint-Jean à Métabetchouan, etc. Voici un aperçu (en cent-cinquante-cinq images) des quelques neuf-cent photos que j’ai pris…
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Earlier in July I made a short trip to the Saguenay with my family. We passed through Quebec City, visited Tadoussac, took a cruise in the Saguenay Fjord, saw the little white house in Chicoutimi, dipped our feet in the Lake Saint-Jean at Métabetchouan, etc. Here is an overview of the trip in one-hundred-and-fifty-five pictures (out of the nine-hundred-forty I took)…

L’image du chat-medi

July 19, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Blindly in love

July 18, 2014 / Clodjee / 2 Comments

WARNING: May contains trace of spoilers! People allergic to the discussion of any plot’s elements before seeing a movie are strongly advised to take the necessary precautions for their safety and should avoid reading further.
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“Shy and socially inept, document.write(“”); Kentaro Amanosizuku, 35, works for the city but lives with his parents, a pet frog and video games as his chief interests. Worried about their son’s future, Kentaro’s parents look into matchmaking services, seemingly to no avail. Then a nibble. Would Kentaro be interested in meeting their daughter Naoko? A meeting is arranged. Naoko is a beautiful young woman but she is blind. Kentaro is smitten. But Naoko’s father has his doubts about Kentaro and the meeting comes to nought. Then, one day, Naoko’s mother comes to visit at Kentaro’s office. Is he still interested in her daughter?” (Text from the Festival’s program)

Kentaro is overly shy (what they call in Japan an “hikikomori”) and, despite having a job and a good income, he has no girlfriend. His parents have tried to match him several time but without success. Their hope gets high when they find a good, suitable match (a woman his age who’s still single) but no deal is made at the introduction meeting. His parents are against the match because it is revealed that she’s blind and her parents are against the match because he is a simple municipal salaryman. However, they start to spend time together against their parents’ will and without their knowledge and they start appreciating each other in many ways. It is not easy, they have to face many obstacles. Kentaro is afraid that he won’t be able to protect her as he is so clumsy. An accident occurs, but he is as determined as he is indestructible!

Blindly in love is a very good romantic comedy — which was quite welcomed after screening several depressing movies in the 2013 Montreal’s World Film Festival. It was the first “feel good” movie that I was seeing in that edition of the festival, at last, and I was quite happy with it.

The movie seems to imply that parents have a responsibility toward what happens to their kids. But when their kids are in their thirties I think they are just overprotective. It is another movie talking about the hikikomori phenomenon, so it really makes me wonder (like I did in Botchan) if this trend means that there are more cases of those withdrawn (hikikomori) and socially inept young people (dokuo), perhaps because of the increasingly stressful socio-economic situation of Japan, or is it simply because the Japanese are starting to pay more attention to those people in emotional distress?

Anyway, like most good Japanese movies, it was pleasant, entertaining and provoked reflection. And it attracted lots of people since the theatre was three-quarter full. The screening finished a little late because of the Q&A that followed in presence of the director, Masahide Ichii.

Opening for Blindly in love, there was an american short (23 mins) titled Common: “Agnes, a widowed church organist, has her lonely, patterned existence threatened when someone from her past comes back into her life…” A previous lesbian love interest! It felt like a good student movie with an interesting subject but a little slow-developing.

You can see a video on Vimeo (27:08 mins) showing the introduction and Q&A session with director Masahide Ichii, before and after the Montreal World Film Festival’s screening on August 28th, 2013 (translation by Dr. Minoru Tsunoda):

Hakoiri musuko no koi ( ??????? / lit. “Love of a Son who is in the Box” / Blindly in love): Japan, 2013, 108 min.; Dir.: Masahide Ichii; Scr.: Masahide Ichii, Takahiro Tamura; Mus.: Ren Takada; Phot.: Daisuke Sôma; Ed.: Chieko Suzaki; Prod.: Chikako Nakabayashi, Yumiko Takebe; Cast: Gen Hoshino, Kaho, Sei Hiraizumi, Ryoko Moriyama, Ren Osugi, Hitomi Kuroki, Honoka, Shuntaro Yanagi, Miyako Takeuchi, Kanji Furutachi. Film screened at the Montreal World Film Festival August 27th, 2013 (Cinema Quartier Latin 9, 21h20) as part of the “Focus on World Cinema” segment.

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Le FFM se prépare à une 38e année difficile

July 18, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

Dès février, document.write(“”); le FFM sortait ses premiers communiqués de presse de l’année en annonçant la nomination de monsieur Massimo Saidel comme ‘’conseiller spécial’’ pour le Marché international du film du FFM. Massimo Saidel apportera son expertise et se rapportera à Gilles Bériault, le directeur du Marché international du film pour la préparation et l’organisation du prochain marché en 2014, qui se déroulera durant le 38e Festival des Films du monde, du 21 août au 1er septembre 2014. (Voir le communiqué)
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En mars, le FFM annonçait que le Marché international du film de Montréal, qui est une activité importante du Festival des films du monde de Montréal, aura une nouvelle section de films européens ce qui fera du Marché une plateforme majeure du cinéma européen en Amérique. Ce sera l’occasion pour tous les secteurs européens de l’industrie cinématographique de faire la promotion de leurs films et de développer d’éventuels partenariats de coproduction. Le Marché du film de Montréal est un rendez-vous important pour les membres de l’industrie locale qui y trouvent l’occasion unique de rencontrer des professionnels de tous les pays. En plus de la présence des représentants européens, le Marché accueillera à nouveau la Semaine de l’industrie chinoise du cinéma. (Voir le communiqué)

À la fin avril, le FFM annonçait que le 38e Festival des films du monde sera dédié à la mémoire de Gabriel García Márquez décédé plus tôt cette année. Il est “sans conteste un phare unique de la littérature mondiale du XXe siècle. Le FFM tient à saluer sa mémoire en hommage à son immense talent et à son engagement humaniste constant pour la défense des cultures de l’Amérique du Sud. Il est un des adeptes du réalisme magique qui a influencé non seulement ses collègues écrivains mais aussi nombre de cinéastes latino américains et autres que nous avons accueillis ici » a déclaré Serge Losique, président du FFM. (Voir le communiqué)

Puis, en mai, le FFM dévoilait l’affiche du 38e Festival, qui a été choisie par le public. Il s’agit d’une oeuvre l’artiste bolivien Marco Toxico.

Ses œuvres sont reconnues mondialement et ont bénéficié de publications en Allemagne, Argentine, Belgique, Brésil, Espagne, France, Mexique, Pérou et Venezuela en plus d’y être exposées régulièrement. Il est le cofondateur, avec Karen Gil, de la maison d’édition La Ñatita consacrée à la publication de leurs travaux. Il a été nommé parmi les 10 meilleurs illustrateurs par le Cow International Design Festival d’Ukraine et a obtenu une mention lors des Rencontres latino-américaines de Design 2013 de Buenos-Aires. (Voir le communiqué)

À la fin juin, le FFM nous rappelle que le Marché international du film de Montréal se prépare a accueillir une importante délégation de l’industrie cinématographique chinoise qui viendra proposer une série de projets de coproduction. (Voir le communiqué)

Finalement, en juillet, le FFM a annoncé que Salaud, on t’aime de Claude Lelouch sera le film d’ouverture de la 38e édition du festival (voir le communiqué) et que Aimer, boire et chanter d’Alain Resnais en serait le film de clôture (voir le communiqué). On a également annoncé le 1er août que l’acteur Hippolyte Girardot sera présent à Montréal pour la projection de l’ultime film de Resnais, “Aimer, Boire et Chanter” (voir le communiqué).

Malheureuseement, les préparatifs pour cette 38e édition du festival sont perturbés par une sérieuse controverse. Le 5 juin dernier, Le Devoir annonce que le Festival des films du monde est menacé car il serait en panne de financement. En effet, la SODEC ne lui accorderait pas de subventions cette année et deux autres bailleurs de fonds principaux, Téléfilm Canada et la Ville de Montréal, retireraient aussi leurs soutien faute d’avoir accès à tous ses livres, à un plan de redressement bien établi et à des finances équilibrées. Le FFM serait ainsi en faillite technique puisqu’il serait miné par un déficit accumulé de plus de 2,5 millions.

Le FFM réplique avec un communiqué où il affirme que malgré le fait que certaines promesses de soutien n’ont pas été tenues, les préparatifs pour la 38e année du festival continues, que le festival se tiendra malgré tout, et qu’il offrira comme par le passé une sélection riche et variée. Il est impossible de nier que les festival éprouve des difficultés financières mais qu’il devrait passer au travers grâce à une gestion rigoureuse et responsable et à un plan de relance.

Par la suite, La Presse et Le Devoir font la chronique de cette saga (à noter que la série d’articles de La Presse nous parait plutôt hostile envers le festival):

“FFM: des subventions de 1 million en suspens” (La Presse, 6 juin 2014)
“Il était temps” (La Presse, 7 juin 2014)
“FFM: Loto-Québec réfléchit à sa commandite” (La Presse, 10 juin 2014)
“Coupes au FFM: la Ville de Montréal s’explique” (Le Devoir, 21 juin 2014)
“Air Canada se retire du FFM” (La Presse, 26 juin 2014)
“FFM: fin de l’ère Losique-Cauchard” (La Presse, 2 juillet 2014)
“Subvention du FFM: les analystes irrités” (La Presse, 2 juillet 2014)
“Le FFM joue le tout pour le tout” (Le Devoir, 2 juillet 2014)
“Pas de dernière chance au FFM” (La Presse, 3 juillet 2014)
“La SODEC et la Ville ne bougent pas” (Le Devoir, 3 juillet 2014)
“SODEC et FFM: dur divorce” (La Presse, 4 juillet 2014)
“Refus de financer le FFM: la SODEC s’explique” (La Presse, 10 juillet 2014)
“J’accuse…! – Lettre ouverte aux institutions à l’écoute de Monique Simard” (La Presse, 15 juillet 2014)
“SODEC-FFM: la guerre est déclarée” (La Presse, 15 juillet 2014)
“Conflit SODEC-FFM: la direction du festival isolée” (La Presse, 16 juillet 2014)
“FFM: Henry Welsh démissionne” (La Presse, 17 juillet 2014)
“Le FFM demande un arbitrage” (La Presse, 17 juillet 2014)
“Saga SODEC-FFM: Monique Simard multiplie les appuis” (La Presse, 17 juillet 2014)
“Serge Losique demande «la paix des braves»” (La Presse, 17 juillet 2014)

À suivre… Étrangement, à travers toute cette tempête, je n’ai pas vu beaucoup de gens qui défendent le FFM: à part quelques acteurs du monde du cinéma [Le Devoir, 16 juillet — abonnement requis], je n’ai vu qu’un éditorial au Devoir titré “Un actif à conserver” [Le Devoir, 3 juillet — abonnement requis mais heureusement le FFM l’a reprit dans son intégralité sur sa page Facebook] et une chronique de Nathalie Petrowski, titré “Une dernière chance” (La Presse, 7 juillet) qui le défendent tant soit peu.

Je trouve tout cela extrêmement dommage. Comme je l’ai déjà dit dans un commentaire quelque part sur FB, non seulement le FFM nous offre l’occasion de voir des films qu’on ne verrait pas ailleurs (contrairement au festival de Toronto où les films sortent en salles dans les semaines qui suivent; je n’en comprend pas du tout l’intérêt…) mais il fait rayonner la ville de Montréal internationalement ! Oui peut-être qu’il n’attire plus autant les foule que Fantasia (mais les deux festivals visent des public totalement différents) et c’est sûr qu’il y aurait du travail à faire sur la promotion et la gestion mais le FFM n’en demeure pas moins un événement culturel essentiel qui se doit d’être préservé et subventionné. Point. Si on trouve de l’argent pour la F1, je suis sûr qu’on peut faire l’effort d’en trouver pour le FFM ! Alors, grands dieux et s.v.p., arrêtez d’argumenter et faites juste en sorte qu’on puisse voir de bons et beaux films !

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July 16, 2014 / Clodjee / Leave a comment

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