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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
"Cafe Lumiere" is the homage that Hou Hsiao-hsien, a Taiwanese director, paid to Yasujiro Ozu, a Japanese director renowned for the way in which he managed to depict the dynamics of family life and the inner life of his characters.
Did he succeed? I think so, due to the fact that he manages to put the spectator in the place of Yoko, a young woman that is pregnant but doesn't feel like marrying her boyfriend, a grown man that remains too attached to his mother. As we watch "Cafe Lumiere", we want to know what she thinks, and how she is going to react to the new development in her life. The spectator is also interested in her friend, a bookstore owner that seems romantically interested in Yoko, and that has an unlikely but strangely poetic hobby.
Are you likely to enjoy this movie? I really don't know, because "Café Lumiere" is a peculiar movie, the kind that some love, but others hate. I can tell you that it is a beautifully made film that pays extraordinary attention to little details, but that has an extremely open ending. Can you like that kind of film? According to your answer, you will know what to do...
- Belen Alcat, June 2007 -
PS: I liked "Café Lumiere" well enough to give it at least 3 stars out of 5.
Did he succeed? I think so, due to the fact that he manages to put the spectator in the place of Yoko, a young woman that is pregnant but doesn't feel like marrying her boyfriend, a grown man that remains too attached to his mother. As we watch "Cafe Lumiere", we want to know what she thinks, and how she is going to react to the new development in her life. The spectator is also interested in her friend, a bookstore owner that seems romantically interested in Yoko, and that has an unlikely but strangely poetic hobby.
Are you likely to enjoy this movie? I really don't know, because "Café Lumiere" is a peculiar movie, the kind that some love, but others hate. I can tell you that it is a beautifully made film that pays extraordinary attention to little details, but that has an extremely open ending. Can you like that kind of film? According to your answer, you will know what to do...
- Belen Alcat, June 2007 -
PS: I liked "Café Lumiere" well enough to give it at least 3 stars out of 5.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If a story should have a beginning, middle and an end, then this film, rather than a story is a fictional documentary. The camera follows the main character Yoko - a twenty something living on her own in Tokyo, for a few days or weeks as she goes about her normal life. Slow paced and gentle, though with an undercurrent of uneasiness reflected by Jaing Ewn-Ye's music and Yoko's interest in an obscure and sinister Goblin fairy tale of European origin, the viewer is forever trying to make the connections and unravel the apparently obscure plot-only to find that there isn't one, or if there is it is not to be revealed to us.
The absence of a grand narrative allow the attention to small details to slowly but persistently paint an essence of life in Tokyo and Japan and of the relation ship between parent and child. In such a way the second character Hajime, who is obsessed with trains attempts to capture the essence of the Tokyo railways by regularly riding the trains and standing on the platforms with a microphone recording for hours the repetitive and everyday sounds of the tracks.
The movie is a homage to Yasujiro Ozu by director Hou Hsiao-hsien, viewers may also detect an influence from the books of Haruki Murakami - in the convincing descriptions of the mundane and ordinary, Hajime's idiosyncratic obsession, and the allusion to the fantastic and mystical when Yoko finds the strange dream that she had a few nights before eerily similar to a story in a children's fairy tale book about Goblins. To those that liked this movie I would recommend Murakami's books and the movie Chunking Express.
The absence of a grand narrative allow the attention to small details to slowly but persistently paint an essence of life in Tokyo and Japan and of the relation ship between parent and child. In such a way the second character Hajime, who is obsessed with trains attempts to capture the essence of the Tokyo railways by regularly riding the trains and standing on the platforms with a microphone recording for hours the repetitive and everyday sounds of the tracks.
The movie is a homage to Yasujiro Ozu by director Hou Hsiao-hsien, viewers may also detect an influence from the books of Haruki Murakami - in the convincing descriptions of the mundane and ordinary, Hajime's idiosyncratic obsession, and the allusion to the fantastic and mystical when Yoko finds the strange dream that she had a few nights before eerily similar to a story in a children's fairy tale book about Goblins. To those that liked this movie I would recommend Murakami's books and the movie Chunking Express.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
It would be fair to say that if you're the type of person who needs 'something to happen'- i.e. a plot hook, to involve you in a film experience then it would be best you avoid 'Cafe Lumiere'. However, if you would enjoy watching life gently unwinding through a series of simple and beautiful observations devoid of brutal articulation or agenda then this will certainly appeal to you. The speechless father is an hilarious treat!
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