Oscar-winning Best Foreign Film (“Drive My Car”) Rjusuke Hamaguchi’s “Fortune and the Wheel of Fantasy”, which won the Berlin Film Festival’s Jury Prize last year, offers a selection of contemporary love stories – three stories meet both modern Japanese and mutual temporality of intimacy.
The screening of “Kino Citadele” on April 21 will close the series of spring events “Riga IFF Invites”. Before the screening – an introductory speech by a representative of the festival and a company of film lovers.
“A new model during a taxi ride realizes that her girlfriend’s sympathy, a man injured in a previous relationship, is close to her. years break looking for a girl she has loved all her life, “says the film ‘s description.
The original title of the film – “Guzen to Sozo” – could be directly translated as “coincidence and imagination”. winds. The film, which is rightly called the “Japanese triptych of love”, has a desire to tell about indescribable feelings, using the cinematic techniques that can offer the viewer “pink glasses” for a moment. Although each story is introduced by the title of the chapter, its morals and conclusions remain in everyone’s hands – after all, it is simply impossible to tell about love.
In the first season of “Riga IFF Invites”, the audience was offered to attend a selection of highly acclaimed films at five world film festivals in special screenings before the works go to cinemas throughout Latvia; Films from the “Riga IFF Collection” are still available in cinema repertoires. This cycle of events is part of the next Riga International Film Festival, which will take place from 13 to 23 October this year.
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