Heaven's story (Heaven's Story). Directed: Takahisa Zeze; screenplay : Sat ō ū Y ki; interpreters : Noriko Eguchi, Akira Emoto, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Murakami Jun, Sat ō K Oichi; length: 278 '- first : October 2, 2010; 61th Berlin International Film Festival
Links: Official Site - Nicholas Vroman (Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow) - Berlin- Catalog
PIA: comments: 3.5 / 5 exit rooms: 74/100
score ★ ★ ★
In an interview a few years ago, Takahisa Zeze, a so-called "Four Kings of Pink", about his films - Gender erotic - and declared: "I try to show the relationships (between people), I love film."
comes from think of this statement (at least the first part, since Heaven's Story is not a sentimental genre, much less erotic ...) in front of the last mammoth work of director: in almost five hours of film, divided into nine chapters covering a span of nine years, what matters above all the director seems to be (still) the development of relations: between victims and perpetrators of violent acts, including victims and victims, survivors, and also between humans and the ghosts of the afterlife.
The film, best film 2010 seconds Eiga Geijutsu, third Kinema Junpō and fresh winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and NETPAC at the 61st Berlin Film Festival, is a story of revenge that follows broken the cycle of seasons and involves different characters: the young survivor of a family murdered by a psychopath, a man who vows revenge for the death of his wife and son, become a cop killer to help the family of another man he killed in self-defense, a rock musician who is able to partially deaf for a few years to stop the cycle of violence, and more ...
The different stories of the film It is set in the complicated structure with frames of classical Japanese theater that trace an ancient tale of monsters and humans, several themes are emerging: revenge in the first place, together with the state of emotional conflict of the people whose lives have been disrupted by violence, but not all. The theme of death understood as loss, death, in contrast to the birth, the relationship with the afterlife (the last such meeting of the ghosts of the slain family with the only survivor, or in the many references to the cicada that free of the armor and "born again"). And memory, in the chapter about a woman suffering from Alzheimer's (played by the famous singer Yamasaki Hako) which manufactures dolls, which decides to adopt a boy who killed a mother and her baby, and even the relationship with nature strong and powerful as in the section on ghost towns in the mountains. The film is ultimately a reflection on contemporary Japanese society.
Maybe too much? Maybe.
And in fact the work intensity is influenced by fluctuating, sometimes it's really fascinating and overwhelming, in others the rate has unbridled accumulation and less convincing.
The use of frames gives a sense of tragic drama and the narrative in its own way, it's like trying to "tidy up" in the flurry of stories and plots, however recovered quickly and nervous anxiety return to the story. In this thick succession of events of (many) characters in the film seems quite infatuated with (of all, without exception, unable to choose between them such as "light" better at the expense of others and in so doing, creating a crowded Olympus of gods and demigods ...), many sequences that can not fail to strike. From one of the first group of children that plunges from a pier, with footage from below the water surface, like an invitation, in preparation for the next four hours to "dip" in the flow intensity of the images of that long ... ghost town nestled in a landscape of snow-capped mountains, a place of epic life and death, became the unlikely stage for Auditors, consisting of endless corridors in which appear the ghosts of people who are also suffering, and terraces of concrete on which the men seem crushed under a leaden sky, which in turn seems to be a metaphor and reflection of the paradise / hell "compressed in the human.
Maybe too much, yes.
You exit the "journey" of Heaven's Story fascinated and a bit 'dazed. [CB - 61th Berlin International Film Festival - February 2011]
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