Review of Onibaba (1964) by Giffy G — 01 Aug 2009
This movie is definitely a movie for art lovers. Scenes are allowed to linger, staging and direction play a lot with light and shadow, water and land. The characters are engaging, and yet carry with them the hollowness of archetypes rather than three dimensional people.
My favorite aspect of this movie is that the movie doesn't follow a Western storytelling convention of beginning, middle, and end. Rather, the movie's internal logic allows it to progress from one vignette to another.
Sometimes the vignettes relate, sometimes they do not. The movie is slow, which made it hard to sit through at point, but it was beautiful.
This review of Onibaba (1964) was written by Giffy G on 01 Aug 2009.
Onibaba has generally received very positive reviews.
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