Synopsis
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
2011 Directed by Bong Joon-ho, Kaori Momoi …
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
Bong Joon-ho Kaori Momoi Naomi Kawase Jia Zhangke Víctor Erice Apichatpong Weerasethakul Steven Sebring So Yong Kim Pedro González-Rubio Kazuhiro Soda Ariel Rotter Isaki Lacuesta Jonas Mekas Toyoko Yamasaki Shunji Dodo Zhao Ye Catherine Cadou Leslie Kee Mohd Naguib Razak Wisut Ponnimit Takushi Nishinaka
3.11 센스 오브 홈 필름즈
Omnibus film of shorts -- each exactly three minutes, eleven seconds-- by great world filmmakers in honor of those lost in the Japanese Earthquake in March 2011.
I only watched Bong Joon-Ho's segment ("Iki") as for years it has been the hardest Bong short to track down.
Bong's short itself is... fine? The project is of course worthy, but I think the very idea of doing short films with such limited running time about such a heavy, serious subject is dicey creatively. Bong's take is simple, dark, and finally hopeful, with strong compositions, but ultimately it's not anything revelatory. Still, as a Bong completionist, glad I can check this one off the list at last.
In 2011, Naomi Kawase invited other filmmakers to make shorts about the concept of home in memory of those lost to March 11th's Tohoku earthquake.
Now, I know I have no right to dictate what should and shouldn't be done as paying tribute, let alone comment on the value of the shorts, but I know how I felt watching this compilation and that was largely underwhelmed and unaffected. There were only a few shorts which caught my interest at all. Forget the theme of home. Forget the natural disaster. Few of these really stand alone for me as shorts.
It took almost 45 minutes to get to Bong Joon-Ho's, and yes, to answer anyone inquiring - he does do head…
Watched Bong's film - maybe someday I'll get round to watching the other 23 filmmakers shorts.
A mixed bag of shorts in memory of the Japanese 3.11 earthquake that ran the gamut of being sentimental, existential and hopeful. Most notable for Bong Joon-ho's inclusion, though worth going through them all even if some came off rather half-hearted or on the nose when tackling the earthquake straight on.
Omnibus film alert! More than 20 filmmakers make a film, each only 3 minutes and 11 seconds long, to commemorate the earthquake that hit Japan on March 11th 2011. So in terms of how short each bit is, this feels like To Each His Own Cinema all over again. Only much, much worse.
I started writing short review for every simple entry, but I kept hating them ever more and more and more, so I decided to stop it, for my own sake. Let's just say that 3 mintues and change is not enough time for a film that does this particular subject justice, and most of the directors participating fail at it (if they even try to do it, that is).
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