Noriko Smiling
2011
First Published
3.92
Average Rating
238
Number of Pages
'Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujiro Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time...' So begins this remarkable essay in narrative reconstruction, which elicits a world of meanings from the reticences of one classic Japanese movie, and reserves to the very end a resolution of its mystery. Adam Mars-Jones gives a virtuoso comeback performance as that lost figure from the earl days of cinema: the film explainer. There has never been a film book like this one.
Avg Rating
3.92
Number of Ratings
36
5 STARS
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Author
Adam Mars-Jones
Author · 13 books
Adam Mars-Jones is a British writer and critic.
