Posts Tagged ‘poverty’

Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô, 1964)

June 13, 2009

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Devil Woman
JP, 103 min

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from now-defunct reel.com:

Feudal era-set Japanese horror tale based on a Buddhist parable.  A woman and her widowed daughter-in-law kill to survive — attacking and killing passing samurai, stripping them of their valuable armor and possessions, and disposing of the bodies in a deep pit. Their lives are disrupted by the return from war of neighbor Hachi, who lusts after the daughter…

With its mix of harsh poetic realism and mounting supernatural terror, this entertains foreign film buffs, adventurous fantasy/horror fans.

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Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (Luis Buñuel, 1932)

February 17, 2009

Sp. & Fr., 26 min.

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A parody of documentary, Buñuel’s exaggerations included covering a donkey in honey so that it would be killed by bees.  The people of Las Hurdes have been stigmatized for generations, and the subject of some ill-conceived reconstruction plans.  Now they live by tourism and bee-keeping.  Watch this film for its surrealism and not its truth.

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