Café Lumière
| Movie | |
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| German title | Café Lumière |
| Original title | 珈 琲 時光 / Kōhī Jikō |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
| script | Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
| production | Liao Ching Song, Hideji Miyajima, Fumiko Osaka, Ichirô Yamamoto |
| music | Yosui Inoue |
| camera | Marc Lee Ping Bin |
| cut | Liao Ching Song |
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Café Lumière ( Japanese 珈 琲 時光 , Kōhī Jikō ) is a Japanese film by the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien from 2003 . On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Ozu Yasujirō, Hsiao-Hsien borrowed from his film The Journey to Tokyo . Café Lumière was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festival .
action
The film tells the story of Yoko Inoue, a young Japanese woman who researches the Taiwanese composer Jiang Wen-Ye. Yoko is three months pregnant but does not want to marry the child's father and is therefore torn between her parents' ideas and the demands of everyday life. Hsiao-Hsien takes on the characteristics of Ozu's films, which address the impossibility of interpersonal communication and the relationship between parents and their adult children.
Jiang Wen-Ye's work is part of the soundtrack . The composer's Japanese wife and daughter make a brief appearance in the film.
criticism
“Kohi Jikou was […] a picture sheet of exquisite accuracy: static settings, of extreme sobriety. Life, nothing else, is at the center of Hous casual storytelling. [...] 'Sleeping in the cinema means trusting the film' as someone aptly said. "
Web links
- Café Lumière in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Café Lumière in Slant Magazine (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rüdiger Suchsland: At least in the cinema, morality triumphs: memories, eros and what was left of the cinema. In: Artechock. September 15, 2004, accessed October 18, 2008 .