A beautiful and disturbing work that this City of Life and Death, which begins like a war movie turns into a historical drama and ends in motion dream.
The black and white knows many justifications that the film is phase. At first it's the style contemporary document, energized and blasted by a tight fit. In a second step is the aestheticism of human figures - the dramatization of their destiny. And in a third time expressionism, symbolism, solar power of the Japanese army and the light devoured by darkness.
Lu Chuan's film, which tells of abuse inflicted on the Chinese population of Nanking by the Japanese army in 1937, perhaps half an hour too. Yet no effect The Pianist the methodical description of this tragedy. Lu Chuan dares highlights and musical themes supported. He can afford it because it draws us slowly into a trance, in a reality distorted by the horror, numb with grief, and which provokes a paradoxical beauty.
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Cinetrafic Thanks to this DVD. City Of Life and Death is a dvd edited by Seven7, to be released November 23.
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