{"id":41838,"date":"2023-11-22T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=41838"},"modified":"2023-11-22T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:46:16","slug":"blind-willow-sleeping-woman-saules-aveugles-femme-endormie-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/22\/blind-willow-sleeping-woman-saules-aveugles-femme-endormie-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Saules aveugles, femme endormie\u2019) (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Director Pierre F\u00f6ldes is not an artist prone to just giving us something that\u2019s easily digestible and worthy of leaving us dangling. \u201cBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman\u201d is probably one of the most uncommercial movies of the year, and the fact that it\u2019s fully animated also works in its favor. The animation style that is used along with the often intentional drabness of it all allows for an almost ethereal aesthetic; it\u2019s one that feels so dream like. It\u2019s almost like someone just ripped random imagery from someone\u2019s subconscious and manifested it through some pretty good rotoscoping and 3D animation.<\/p>\n

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Director F\u00f6ldes\u2019 movie is one that will pair beautifully with cerebral animated films like \u201cWaking Life<\/a>\u201d and \u201cTekkonkinkreet.\u201d It\u2019s a movie about human connection, the struggle to find human connection in a distant world, and that aching that comes from being close to everyone, but also being so far. \u201cBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman\u201d is an unusual anthology animated movie that unfolds in various chapters, all of which interconnect in various ways. One of the central plots involves the bookish Katagiri who, still reeling from a terrible Earthquake in Tokyo, arrives home to be greeted by a seven foot frog. The frog, who talks, begs for Katagiri\u2019s help in fighting a worm that\u2019s lurking underground and could potentially start another disaster in the form of a massive tsunami.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Komura is stunned when he comes home from work to learn that his wife Kyoko had left him after spending days in front of the television watching coverage of the horrible Earthquake that ensued in Tokyo. Along the way both men go on personal separate journeys across the country, thinking back to their past, and trying reconcile the sudden events that have unfolded in their present. All of it is curiously linked back to the terrible earthquake, which speaks to a lot of how individuals can process grief and trauma. As well F\u00f6ldes explores how the trauma can send ripples through people that have barely spoken, causing them to reflect on the minute details of their own lives, and how they can ultimately prove to be more important than they realize.<\/p>\n

To its detriment, \u201cBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman\u201d can be immensely abstract, as well as steadily paced, but sticking with it might just prove to be worthwhile. I enjoyed the very deeply personal and fascinating peek in to humanity and our somewhat metaphysical link to each other.<\/p>\n

Now available on Digital and Home Video from Zeitgeist Films.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Pierre F\u00f6ldes is not an artist prone to just giving us something that\u2019s easily digestible and worthy of leaving us dangling. \u201cBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman\u201d is probably one of the most uncommercial movies of the year, and the fact that it\u2019s fully animated also works in its favor. The animation style that is used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,99,103,111,302,349],"class_list":["post-41838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-animation","tag-anthology","tag-arthouse","tag-drama","tag-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41840,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41838\/revisions\/41840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}