Arsenevich: Takeshi Kitano

Japonès | Subs:Castellano/EN/FR/PT/IT/DE (muxed)

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“Dolls” reúne tres historias de amor inspiradas en los números de marionetas del teatro “bunraku”. En la primera, Matsumoto y Sawako forman una pareja feliz, pero las presiones ejercidas por sus dos familias les obligarán a tomar una trágica decisión. En la segunda, Hiro, un jefe “yakuza”, regresa a un parque donde solía encontrarse con su novia, y se sume en los recuerdos… En el tercero, Haruna, cuyo rostro está cubierto de vendajes, pasa la mayor parte del tiempo mirando al mar. No hace mucho, ella era una estrella de la música, acostumbrada a firmar autógrafos y a salir en televisión. Nukui es, sin la menor duda, su mayor fan y hoy piensa demostrárselo.

[...] Alejándose en el terreno narrativo del modelo comercial, Kitano recurre a frecuentes elipsis y flashbacks, cambiando su habitual registro cromático – basado en los blancos, azules y grises – para utilizar colores vivos en un recorrido por las cuatro estaciones que parece, al mismo tiempo, ser un tardío homenaje al cine japonés y, muy especialmente, al Akira Kurosawa de los últimos tiempos. Renunciando a los toques de humor negro que le habían caracterizado anteriormente, más triste y reflexivo que nunca, Kitano opta por la tranquilidad y el silencio con un fondo musical magnífico que, como en toda la filmografía de Kitano, corresponde al compositor Jô Hishaisi.
-- Eva Pesquera en AlohaCriticón

Beginning with an excerpt from Bunraku puppet theater master Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Kitano goes on to tell the story of three sets of men and women obsessed with ill-fated relationships. Matsumoto is in love with Sawako, but he chooses to marry his boss's daughter instead so he can get ahead in the world. After Sawako attempts suicide and loses her mind, Matsumoto chooses to do his penance by giving up everything to take care of her, leading her through the streets and parks tied to him with a red cord so she can't get away and hurt herself. Hiro is a yakuza boss who left his love long ago in order to make something of himself; she promised she would come to the park to wait for him every Saturday, and he is shocked when he returns to the bench decades later and finds her there, with his lunch. And traffic worker Nukui is so dedicated to young pop sensation Haruna that he makes a bizarre sacrifice after she is partially blinded in an accident.

"The film has moments of great loveliness. Some of the landscapes, filled with autumn leaves of astonishing shades of red, are beautiful and lonely. The film is about three people who have unhappiness forced upon them, and three others who choose it. "Dolls" isn't a film for everybody, especially the impatient, but Kitano does succeed, I think, in drawing us into his tempo and his world, and slowing us down into the sadness of his characters."
-- Roger Ebert.