Review of Millennium Actress (2002) by Louis F — 31 Jan 2008
Satoshi Kon continues to be at the forefront of the most important, most brilliant and most creative story tellers working in Japanese animation today, and I'll say that standing on Miyazaki's coffee table and say that.
Kon continues to prove that of all the incredible film makers currently producing cinema, he is the modern day Kubrick, he is the modern day Welles, he is the modern day inheritor of the cinema fantastic.
If he was a d.j. he would have the best transitions.
Because in his films he is the master of transitions. No one can push a story forward like Kon.
No one tells stories like this except Kon.
This movie is a love letter to cinema and it's a love letter to all those who have fallen under the spell of the moving picture on the big screen at one time or another.
Kon continues his proud, brilliant transition of playing with reality as if it were nothing, something to be turned on or off, something easily bendable and maybe even breakable.
He understands the people the make up the world, he can represent them faithfully, honestly, humorously, simply and movingly. He gets it.
I want more. He needs to make far more than four films. His four films will live forever wherever there are people who appreciate art, beauty and all the terrible, wonderful things that come with it.
A classic. An absolute, untouchable classic.
This review of Millennium Actress (2002) was written by Louis F on 31 Jan 2008.
Millennium Actress has generally received very positive reviews.
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