Jul 31, 2020
This time on our oeuvre-view of Setsuko Hara's (English-subtitled) career, Kurosawa's The Idiot/Hakuchi, based on Dostoevsky, is paired with Ozu's Early Summer for maximum tonal dissonance. Our heroine proves her range again—even with her Noriko roles. Join us for a discussion of sexual psychosis and tragic caritas in The Idiot and the perverse obsession with normalizing Noriko in Early Summer.
Time Codes:
0h 01m 00s: The Idiot (1951) [dir: Akira Kurosawa]
0h 38m 22s: Early Summer (1951) [dir: Yasujiro Ozo]
1h 16m 26s: Elise Goes Wilder III & Farewell Olivia De Havilland
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