Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Directed byRyusuke Hamaguchi, starringKotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE JAP
SUBTITLES FR/NL
Duration 121
Prices 9.00 €, 7.00 €, 6.50 €, 6.00 €
Moderator ticket Article 27, Arsène 50
Abonnement Carte 5 places, UGC Unlimited

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Introducing

“There’s often a tendency that when coincidences appear within a story, storytelling almost tends to fail. But Rohmer taught me, in fact, with his films that coincidence also allows you to add risk to storytelling. I think those kinds of risks allow for emotion—and for something moving to happen as well.” Hamaguchi for Slant Magazine

Synopsis

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap, and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

Films

Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.

Introducing

Synopsis

Hamaguchi uses irony as the key to understanding the sources of social inhibitions: the tension resulting from the presence of other people and their ability to evaluate the hero’s actions. In short, alienation, loneliness resulting from culture’s dictations, commandments and limitations.
Eye For Film

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, in its masterfully unassuming simplicity, embodies that quality of Eric Rohmer’s films in which characters certain of themselves are gradually taken aback by human interactions. As often happens in life, in these movies being with other people has the power to crack the façade of individual certainty—of identity, of morality, of the very workings of the world—and force a reckoning of character and being.
MUBI

This trio of stories is elegant and amusing, with a delicacy of touch and real imaginative warmth. The narratives saunter along lightly but fundamentally seriously, asking us to consider how the paths we take in life – the wrong turnings, the right turnings – can be governed by the merest chance. It’s a really pleasurable and invigorating experience.
The Guardian