That's the best Barbet Schroeder film I have ever seen. Not ambitious but well made, smoothly and solidly directed. Actors are wonderful, including Magimel and his fellow Japanese partners.
It tells the story of a successful french writer who flies to Japan in order to meet, and somewhere provoke, a famous Japanese author. A writer he usually criticizes with ardour. Of course nothing will be easy for him. He will have to face many "vicissitudes". The worst ones...
The ending is absolutely unpredictable. I wouldn't have bet a cent on it.
A standard but somewhere interesting and unusual feature, especially, I repeat, the ultimate ending.
It tells the story of a successful french writer who flies to Japan in order to meet, and somewhere provoke, a famous Japanese author. A writer he usually criticizes with ardour. Of course nothing will be easy for him. He will have to face many "vicissitudes". The worst ones...
The ending is absolutely unpredictable. I wouldn't have bet a cent on it.
A standard but somewhere interesting and unusual feature, especially, I repeat, the ultimate ending.