Lezing Dick Stegewerns: Mikio Naruse - Strong Women and Everyday Misery
Dick Stegewerns, curator of the Mikio Naruse retrospective, will give a lecture on the life and work of this famous Japanese film director. He will discuss the various stages of Naruse's career and focus on his style and the themes in his oeuvre of women films. In the last part of his lecture he will deal with Floating Clouds, which will be screened immediately after the lecture. This 1955 film is looked upon as the zenith of Japanese melodrama and one of the best Japanese films ever made.
Dick Stegewerns is associate professor at the University of Oslo, has worked at the International Film Festival Rotterdam for 25 years, and since his return from Japan in 2007 has been curating retrospectives on Japanese cinema at various cinematheques and film festivals in Europe.
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Mikio Naruse
With a programme of fourteen of his most distinctive films, Eye Filmmuseum demonstrates that Mikio Naruse ranks among the great of Japanese cinema. Naruse was fascinated by the lives of ordinary Japanese men and women, whose stories he narrated in compelling and sober films. His immersive films take us behind the scenes of disciplined families and geisha culture. Naruse mainly highlighted the plight of women: independent, courageous and strong-willed, but ill-fated.
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