Expat Cinema : Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy VO st EN

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

Expat Cinema : Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy VO st EN

Directed byRyusuke Hamaguchi
  • ORIGINAL LANGUAGE JAP
  • SUBTITLES EN
  • Duration 121
  • Prices 9.00 €, 7.00 €, 6.50 €, 6.00 €
  • Moderator ticket Article 27, Arsène 50
  • Abonnement Carte 5 places, UGC Unlimited
Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.

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.

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

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.

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
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