Mizu no onna (Woman of Water)

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Audience Member A very nice looking indie art house film that seems like it might roll over and play dead at any minute but never does. It also never really gets up and goes anywhere either, which is fine because films that are nice to sit back and look at might as well move along at a leisurely pace. Woman of Water is a bunch of pretentious, metaphorical poetry about man and woman and fire and water fueling a story about a woman who runs a bath house and whose intense emotional states are always accompanied by rain and the arsonist whom she hires to stoke the fires that keep her bath water warm. Don't go into this one hoping for any strength of narrative. It's meandering and opaque. Both of the characters have baggage in their past meant to give the film some emotional appeal but it might as well be a silent movie with the freewheeling and oblique way the plot develops, mixing dreams, fantasies, deja vu, and visual metaphors in equal measure. This one is for fans of art house esoterica only. more: <a href='http://sitenoise-atthemovies.blogspot.com/2010/07/woman-of-water-mizu-no-onna-2002-japan.html' target='_blank'>sitenoise at the movies: Woman of Water</a> Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is so exquisitely shot, and it so beautifully does with water what Woman in the dunes (check that one!) does with sand, that it's a pity that the contents deal with water and fire in a metaphyical ying-yang story that I am known to be insensitive to. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member wish there was more development with the relationship between the 2 characters and more explanation to their respective "powers". a missed opportunity. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A rare film that lacks atmosphere, character development AND plot. It simply drags and feels like the director is trying too hard to be "artistic." I fell asleep several times during the movie only to wake and find that I hadn't really missed anything. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Mizu no onna (Woman of Water)

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