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★★★★★ Watched 03 May 2019
67. Trento Film Festival
A bunch of society's rejects (drug addicts, AIDS and mental institutions' patients, prisoners, homeless people) are asked to read or recite passages of the Book of Revelation. You're not ready for this, no one is. In framing these people, Dal Bosco (recently passed away) has the uncompromising and radical gaze of Pasolini and Brakhage, the camera slowly and obsessively swinging left and right, again and again, while through their mouths God himself is unleashing his rage…
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★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Apr 2019
I decided to try out a review in chapters for this second viewing of The Return, in which I'll update this entry as I watch the show's Parts. Each update will include some thoughts/sensations about the Part I just watched and will probably discuss some plot points, so I'm afraid there are gonna be spoilers (although I doubt that there are that many people who haven't watched this yet).
I have the feeling that this second time will be much…
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★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Jan 2025
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A good film almost ruined by a pointless ending. The need for catharsis can be very dangerous.
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"No one ever tells him what to be, only what not to be; boys become boys, in large part, by not being girls. [...] Later, he will be with women, and feel what he has been robbed of."
The creation of the male gender (there's a conflation in the film between sex and gender, its discourse tackling the traditional/patriarchal production of gender roles) is for once seen as a result of negative repression and the traumas provoked by the always-already…
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Part French existentialism, part Japanese paraphiliac eroticism, Fruit of Passion is an eclectic hybrid, as well as an inherently fluid film: sometime Goya canvas, sometime pearly hallucination; here exploitative trash, there counter-cultural experimentation. I say fluid because everything happens seamlessly, in a fluctuating cinematic movement that slowly engulfs you in its motion. People here complain about Klaus Kinski's balls, and I can see why this is a film that could stir up loads of gripes; just leave Kinski's balls out of it.
Gotta check out other Terayama's works as soon as possible.
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