Still the Water
Naomi Kawase / JP, 2014 / 121 min.
Two teens on a subtropical Japanese island find comfort together, as they face both a family tragedy and the devastating forces of nature. This wise, serene film was in competition in Cannes.
To accompany the VR experience Missing Pictures, in which Naomi Kawase talks about never-made romantic comedy Oh Debu, Eye is screening her dreamy, tender film Still the Water. Filmmaking poet Kawase (The Mourning Forest) transports us to the Japanese subtropical island of Amami-Oshima, where villagers live in harmony with the unpredictable rhythms of nature – sometimes pleasant and life-giving, sometimes violent and destructive.
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Details
Director
Naomi Kawase
Production year
2014
Country
JP
Original title
Futatsume no mado
Length
121 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
Missing Pictures
For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the big screen. In the VR experience Missing Pictures, Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Naomi Kawase, and Lee Myung-Se give us a guided tour of a story they were not able to tell.
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