Chez Classics at GV: Late Spring with John Anzalone

Let's join the lovely Chez folks and John Anzalone for Ozu's Late Spring. No you are not losing your mind, there is already an event for this, but wanted to let Fanzalones know John will be presenting! No need to sign up twice.

Late Spring, 1949
The first of two films commonly acknowledged as the masterpieces of Ozu’s post-war cinema, Late Spring is an intimate portrait of the relationship of a father and his unmarried daughter. Ozu constructs a quiet, subtle portrayal of the everyday world of people for whom tradition structures life and expectations at a moment in time when the modern world is changing around them. Without the least concession to melodrama he nonetheless shows the pain as well as the joys experienced by people whose modesty and humility are one of the answers to how to cope with change. He is brilliantly served by his two leads, Chishu Ryu who acted in many of his films as the father, a man of learning and sensitivity; and as the daughter Noriko, the utterly remarkable Setsuko Hara. This would be the first of six films she made with Ozu and the first of what has come to be known as the Noriko trilogy, three films in which she portrayed distinct characters with the same name. Her luminous performance here builds to an achingly beautiful conclusion.
Ozu’s films have little action or plot in the conventional sense, and he advances narrative in the subtlest ways. But close attention to his films reveals how the cinema can reach poetic heights.

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