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- Title
A Distant Cry from Spring and the Structures of Yoji Yamada.
- Authors
Nolletti Jr, Arthur
- Abstract
The article presents a film criticism to the 1980 movie "A Distant Cry From Spring," which was directed by Japanese Yoji Yamada. It informs that the film was a Jury Prize Winner during the World Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec, due to its excellent introduction of themes and narrative and cinematic strategies. It assesses that the film's shots and compositions are often an accord with Western-style decoupage, wherein the characters and their feelings able to communicate in an eloquent and restrained style with foregrounds of silence and space.
- Subjects
FILM criticism; DISTANT Cry From Spring, A (Film); YAMADA, Yoji, 1931-; FILMMAKING; FILM festivals; MOTION picture plots &; themes; FILM characters; DECOUPAGE; MOTION picture evaluation
- Publication
Film Criticism, 1985, Vol 9, Issue 3, p9
- ISSN
0163-5069
- Publication type
Article