| KITCHEN/ FOOD
FILMS/ FILM MAIN |
| Dir:
Yim Ho/ Japan/ Hong Kong / 1997/ 124 min |
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| Based on
a Banana Yoshimoto novel, Kitchen is a slow-burning love
story. Profoundly meditated, with a meticulously
controlled rhythm and an intense clarity in images, it draws
the audience into the worlds of its three protagonists: Louie,
a hairdresser; Emma, his transsexual mother/biological father;
and Aggie, a young woman who can smell rain. When Aggie loses
her grandmother and is grief-stricken, Louie and Emma take her
under their wings. Eventually the young people start out to
discover the world’s romantic possibilities, while Emma,
mid-course in the strange heaviness of adult life finds out
love guarantees no happiness. Yim Ho, making lyric sense of
the emotion of longing, creates a film to be savoured
like a poem. Study the details, for every scene is an
event. |
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