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Woman of the Dunes (Directors Cut)
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Film Description
The director's cut of Teshigahara's best known work. Out in the sand dunes a woman lives alone at the bottom of a pit. Local villagers bring her a man. He can't escape, but gradually they are drawn to each other. An atmospheric, highly charged and remarkably sensual exploration of the human condition.
Film Information
| Director | Hiroshi Teshigahara | ||||
| Starring | Kyoko Kishida, Eiji Okada
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| Genre | World Cinema
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| Country | Japan | Language | JAPANESE | Year | 1964 |
Technical Details
| Certificate | 15 | Length | 141 mins | Label | BFI | ||
| Cat No | BFIVD645 | Format | DVD | Black & White | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 1.33:1 | ||||
| Subtitles | English . | ||||||
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Review by Graeme Hobbs on 15th August 2006
A highly sensual metaphysical allegory, Woman of the Dunes - the second film from the multi-disciplined artist and ikebana master Hiroshi Teshigahara - still resembles little else. An amateur entomologist is on leave studying beetles in a remote place of endless dunes. He misses the last bus (so he is told), and the villagers guide him to a house in the dunes owned by an attractive widow. As he descends the rope ladder to stay for the night, he doesn't yet realise what he is in for. His initial pity at the widow's circumstances soon changes on learning that he is trapped there to help her shovel away the sand that fills their pit every night. Abstract representations of dunes that appeared in the opening credits later form the pattern of a blouse the woman wears. There will be no escape. His indignation turns first to passion, then tenderness.
Soon we are immersed in a daily life dictated by sand. The erotic charge of bodies in close proximity is emphasised by screen-filling close-ups of grains of sand or beads of perspiration on skin. In such a dry environment, water too is eroticised as in scenes of body-washing, or the bound woman suckling the last drops of water from a kettle spout, or the slow rounding of dripping water.
As with Pitfall and The Face of Another, Woman of the Dunes was a collaboration between Teshigahara, writer Kobo Abe and composer Toru Takemitsu, who provides a perfect counterpoint to the extraordinary images, from abrupt, damped percussive strikes to a slow, granular crunching that means we never forget the dune's relentless falling. Fulfilling on every level.
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Friday 4th August 2006
Following Woman of the Dunes, Teshigahara’s next film, again in collaboration with Kobo Abe and Toru Takemitsu was a sometimes macabre, sometimes darkly humorous investigation of the nature of identity. In it, a man whose face has been permanently scarred in an indus... View article in full
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Friday 4th August 2006
Teshigahara’s second film, Woman of the Dunes, a Special Jury Prize winner at Cannes, and a nominee for the Best Foreign Film Award by the American Academy, is the film by which he is best known in the West. As with Pitfall and The Face of Another, it was a collabora... View article in full
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