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Late Spring

Banshun (Late Spring)

1949

Yasujirō Ozu

Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Hohi Aoki, Masao Mishima ...

8.1

4,187

Drama A widower who lives with his daughter wants her to get married, but she doesn't want to leave him alone. He will pretend that he is about to marry in order to convince her that she won't fit at home anymore, thus forcing her to seek comfort and joy elsewhere.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of the best two or three films Ozu ever made (...) [It features] precise compositions for a camera that almost never moves (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Ozu's recognition of the wall of skin separating the mind of the character from the viewer is an integral part of his philosophy."
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"The first masterpiece of Yasujirô Ozu’s iconic late period (...) It’s actually very visually bold, with an intensified sense of geometry, figure, and line, and a wild disregard for the rules of continuity editing"
		Melissa Anderson Village Voice	"[A] magnificent family drama (...) [Hara] is heartbreakingly vibrant"
		Jaime N. Christley Slant	"Few films have expressed, with as much force and lyricism as Ozu’s 'Late Spring', the various emotions (...) associated with the ongoing, perpetual dissolution of 'the world as we know it' (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kim Newman Empire	"Although well acted, the visual are equally arresting but when the themes are so similar a new approach is required to keep it interesting (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Time Out	"It contains passages of great beauty and humanity, and there can be no faulting the heartbreaking performances of Ryu and Hara (...) A remarkable, piercing film"
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The sense of loss and regret is beautifully balanced with the optimism of a new life beginning"

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