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Woman in the Dunes (1964) [The Criterion Collection]

Posted By: MirrorsMaker
Date: 2 Sep 2016 07:37:57
Woman in the Dunes (1964) [The Criterion Collection]

Woman in the Dunes (1964)
A Film by Hiroshi Teshigahara
BDRip | MKV | 720 x 540 | x264 @ 2102 Kbps | 147 min | 2,37 Gb
Audio: Japanese AAC 1.0 @ 90 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Thriller

One of the 1960s’ great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday life as a Sisyphean struggle – an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director.

IMDB - Nominated for 2 Oscars + Another 10 wins

I get more and more impressed with the classics of Japanese cinema and this is def a highlight. Mesmerizing and artsy it portrays a etymologist and 'the woman of the dunes' trapped in sand. The trap itself obviously symbolizes the trap a certain desert beetle digs to lie in the midst of it waiting for prey which cannot help but sliding into it. Its the same for him, he cant climb the sand walls, the more he struggles the more the sand runs a little like the woman who in fear of the outside continues her sisyfosan existence.

The psychology between the two is excellently depicted. The tension is intensified trough images of sweaty skin and running sand. The cinematographer is a master in filming this. Lots of black. Editing also is sharp and very well done. Sound is minimal and fits the images' bleak and deserted dunes.

Much can be said about this movie, it is one for repeated viewings for sure.
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Woman in the Dunes (1964) [The Criterion Collection]
Woman in the Dunes (1964) [The Criterion Collection]

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