Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

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Audience Member One of the most sincere and brutally honest films I've ever seen. As a documentary, it's incredibly personal. It's not some schmuck with nothing personal to say trying to document the poverty of Africa, the hard life in the slums or some other social malady. It doesn't come from some middle class guilt complex or the rational desire to reveal society's dirty secrets. It's not some impartial and ethical film about something the filmmaker never experienced and can't truly relate to. Here, the filmmaker's presence has an influence on the environment and the people he's documenting, and that's actually one of the things that makes it work. The subject is important to him, it's a part of his life. It starts as a guy trying to understand a person he got involved with, but it ends up saying so much more. The way everyone exposes themselves bare is both shocking and beautiful. In terms of aesthetics, there are so many amazing "happy accidents" caught by his camera. This is so honest and personal, and because of that, it says so much more about human beings than most documentaries out there that are actually trying to say something about human beings. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member A bold experimental film at that era, and till now, it is still a very good reference for those who film real stories! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the most interesting and touching documentaries I have ever seen. It's truly amazing that Kazuo Hara filmed Miyuki's birth without any focus for accident because it made softer in the eye - although still hand clinching - and easier to concentrate on the emotion of the scene other than the gruesome details. The lack of sync also benefits the movie. By disassociating image and sound, both are experimented differently, making the events look like private memories. All images and explanations flow naturally, with a beautiful sense of intimacy. I felt close to them. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member sällan har jag skÃ¥dat nÃ¥got sÃ¥ intimt. intimt, banbrytande, vÃ¥gat och utelämnande pÃ¥ en och samma gÃ¥ng utan att nÃ¥gonsin snudda vid att kännas pretto eller sökt. det svart/vita ofokuset, det osynkade ljudet och det nakna berättandet ihop med den totala, rÃ¥a ärligheten och de sällsynt självständiga karaktärerna gör att Kazuo Haras dokumentation riktigt smyger in under huden och naglar sig fast. utan att jag knappt märkt av det har filmen passerat och jag sitter mÃ¥llös och hänförd. Haras blottning är genial. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member yes, extremely private... Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member People who like personal documentaries will dig this. This is about the director chasing after his ex-wife and making her the subject of his work after their divorce. It isn't really direct cinema since the sound is out of sync, calling the verisimilitude of dialogue into question, which might benefit the film because what happens in front the camera is so personal and traumatic. It would be better if Hara puts more of himself into the film instead of only rarely appearing and intruding into it. It contains perhaps the most harrowing birth scene since Window Water Baby Moving. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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