Equinox Flower
1977VOTE NOW
| Carlotta Films | Release Date: June 1, 1977 |
Starring:
Chieko Naniwa, Chishû Ryû, Ineko Arima, Keiji Sada, Kinuyo Tanaka, Miyuki Kuwano, Shin Saburi, Teiji Takahashi, Yôko Chimura, Yoshiko Kuga
Summary:
A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.
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Another great domestic comedy-drama. [08 May 2009, p.C2]
Ozu uses his austere style to express warmth, occasional humor and and a spirit of reconciliation; as usual, his repeated shots of people crossing a corridor suggest the passage through life. [19 Jan 1990, p.F10]
As in LATE SPRING (1949), Ozu eschews formula standards of dramatic convention by omitting the actual scene of the wedding ceremony, choosing instead to focus on its planning and consequences. The result is poignant and moving, and if EQUINOX FLOWER is not one of Ozu's greatest films, it's still a gentle and touching late work from this master.
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Equinox Flower—a particularly inscrutable title even for this great Japanese director—is one of Ozu's least dark comedies, which is not to say that it's carefree, but, rather, that it's gentle and amused in the way that it acknowledges time's passage, the changing of values and the adjustments that must be made between generations.
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Ozu's first film in colour, and he uses it sparingly. Subdued dress sense and domestic interiors are set against splashes of significant red (look out for the kettle!), representing the amaryllis which blooms around the autumn equinox - the perfect image for a film about transition.
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This 1958 film by Yasujiro Ozu (his first in color) is gentle, spare, and ultimately elusive, in a quietly satisfying way. [07 May 2009, p.28]
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