Black, Blue & Blond

A sister and a brother with strong emotional ties since childhood. She is seriously ill, alone in a hospital by the sea. He is sitting on a train, with her letter in his hand. Memories are awakened, he closes his eyes and the dreams pour forth.

Comments:
When the lights in the movie theatre fade out, lean back, relax and let Simone F. Turner's flowing music take you into Isao Yamada's world of images. Don't exert yourself trying to find a logical pattern. This film follows the logic of dreams.
In the beginning, an image from reality. A young man on a train, on his way to his sister. After that reality, dream and memories are hard to tell apart. It is a journey between the present and the past. A nostalgic vision...
The human beings usually move slowly, very slowly. Together with music the images becomes painting. Immensely beautiful paintings.
No fast cuts. No stress. It is soothing. It is like massage, sauna... for the soul. I want to see the film again! Hear the music.
Never before have I felt particularly strongly about a Japanese film. Have not been able to transform their world of ideas into my own. But this film is different from every other Japanese film I have ever seen. Undoubtedly it has a lot to do with Turner (among other things known as the composer of the music in Derek Jarman's films), whose music provides a great part of the link between the Japanese and European that I missed before.
''I saw a dream during my journey'' the young man says at the beginning of the film. Thus, this film becomes our journey. A journey in which there is also room for our associations, dreams and memories, during the seventy enjoyable minutes it lasts.
Jannike Grut

Orig. titel
Todo por la pasta: Medverkande
Maria Barranco, Antonio Resines: Producent
Joaquin Trincado: Manus
Luis Marias: Foto
Carles Guse: Musik
Bernado Bonezzi: Talat språk
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