Who's Camus Anyway?

2005

1h 55m

Drama

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88%

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8 Reviews

75%

Audience Score

500+ Ratings

A group of eccentric students sets out to make a movie, but when the star suddenly quits, the cast begins to live the film.

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

Who's Camus Anyway doesn't simply reflect our love for the movies, it responds to it as well.

Rated: 3.5/4

Sep 26, 2005

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Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

Energy and comedy are in large supply in writer-director Mitsuo Yanagimachi's Who's Camus Anyway?, yet another riff on the levels of reality that occur when a cast and crew make a movie.

May 20, 2005

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

"Who's Camus Anyway?" is an impressive movie that highlights the utter command Yanagimachi had of the medium, and a more than fitting swan song of one of the most important filmmakers of contemporary Japanese cinema.

Feb 21, 2021

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Doug Cummings

Filmjourney

While it's chock full of film references, colorful characters, and social eccentricities, its true sophistication emerges gradually, posing complex questions about the roles of fantasy, identity, and volition in modern life.

Nov 1, 2006

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John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

Yanagimachi's inventive film about a collegiate film school project contains tangled webs of melodramatic fun along with moments of self-reflection

Rated: B

Aug 22, 2006

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Leo Goldsmith

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

The Japanese propensity for faithful imitation is the focus of Yanagimachi's film, and, most of all, the imitation of life through the cinema.

Mar 24, 2006

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This works on so many levels. It's ultra literate. It's incredibly witty visually. It leaves you breathless.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

great fun for cinephiles

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

Now streaming on Netflix. This film is just bursting with life and energy. Yanigimachi's choreography of actors and extras is both bustling but controlled. It seems like anything could happen in this movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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(****): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] I was really surprised by how much I liked this film. I found it to be near-perfect. A very intriguing story, solid direction, and a strong cast. One of my new favorites.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Audience Member

The last part...T__T

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Shows interesting points of the bureaucracy of making a movie and has a lot of references that makes analogies in the movie work. Luckily, I've got the main reference to Albert Camus' Meursault because of a "The Cure" song, but the movie may not make much sense if you don't know the references... I'd probably give it a 3 out of 5 in that case. =P Anyway, the movie makes a good mix of what's happening in the movie they are making and what happens in "real life".

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Synopsis

A group of eccentric students sets out to make a movie, but when the star suddenly quits, the cast begins to live the film.

Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Producer: Kazuo Shimizu
Screenwriter: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Production Co: Breath
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 12, 2017
Runtime: 1h 55m