A Japanese mountain village on the outskirts of Tokyo is upset by a proposed glamping site for city tourists. Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi helms this 2023 Venice Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, which also won best film at the London Film Festival and Asian Film Awards.
But there are distant gunshots. Composer Eiko Ishibashi’s dissonant score cuts in and out, and what is with that silent four-minute prologue gazing up at barren tree branches?The centrepiece is a town hall meeting, one of those absorbing lengthy exchanges that are Hamaguchi’s hallmark. It is the Tokyo developer’s cynical public relations exercise to sell the close-knit community on the benefits of tourism.
Russell Crowe plays an actor whose disruptive behaviour during a remake of the 1973 movie The Exorcist has his daughter worrying whether he is possessed. PHOTO: SHAW ORGANISATION It is a meta movie-within-a-movie set on a studio soundstage, of interest most for the Hollywood lore which Joshua John Miller, despite his personal connection, somehow reduces to genre cliches the likes of creaky doors and levitating entities.
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