Review of An Autumn Afternoon (1962) by Jeremy B — 23 Jan 2009
A comic variant on Ozu's recurring theme of fathers and daughters, shot in vibrant primary colours and possessed of a couple of novel ideas, let down by sitcom-flat staging and his usual plodding pace.
.. The skittishness overwhelms any real insight, and you still sense Ozu is much more interested in the salarymen boozing their way across town than in the passive, pinny-sporting women pottering about behind them.
Cosily funny - with much nudging humour about old boys who require certain pills to satisfy their young brides - and finally even rather touching in its awkward and formal sort of way, but again the suspicion (as with all too many of Ozu's so-called "timeless" works) is that it won't mean a thing to anyone under 50.
This review of An Autumn Afternoon (1962) was written by Jeremy B on 23 Jan 2009.
An Autumn Afternoon has generally received very positive reviews.
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