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Nanayo is the latest film from Naomi Kawase, the winner of the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with The Mourning Forest and BAFF 2003 with Shara. Making a change from Kawase’s former films, which are all set in her native Nara, Nanayo was shot in a poetic village in Thailand. The movie details the human drama that unfolds as different people of different nationalities happen to come together under one roof in a house in the middle of a forest. Lacking a common language, the art of traditional Thai massage becomes the tool they use to communicate. Removed from the speed of modern life, they form a strange but happy pseudo family. Kawase works for the first time with a multi-national cast and staff, including Grégoire Colin (seen in Claire Denis’ Beau Travail and Erick Zonca’s La vie rêvée des anges) and favorite’s Rivette and Truffaut Caroline Champetier as a director of photograhpy. Almost nothing is ever revealed about anyone’s backgrounds but as usual in Naomi Kawase’s movies, nature, atmosphere and landscape have much to say.
2.71GB | 1h 25m | 1280×720 | mkv
Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English
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