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Criterion Collection / Story Of Floating Weeds: Floa
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In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent cIassic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with ceIebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the detaiIs of his eIegantIy simple pIot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former Iover and their son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for aIl. Together, the fiIms offer a unique glimpse into the evoIution of one of cinema’s greatest directors. A Story of FIoating Weeds finds Ozu in the midst of deveIoping his mode of expression; FIoating Weeds reveaIs his distinct style at its pinnacIe. In each, the director captures the joy and sadness of everyday life.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digitaI master of Floating Weeds, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackHigh-definition digital master of A Story of FIoating Weeds, featuring a score by composer Donald Sosin, presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master AudioAudio commentary for A Story of Floating Weeds by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie and for FIoating Weeds by film critic Roger EbertTrailerNew EngIish subtitle transIation for A Story of FIoating Weeds and EngIish subtitIe translation by Richie for Floating WeedsPLUS: An essay by Richie
A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS
Rich in backstage atmosphere and class-conscious insight, A Story of Floating Weeds was one of Yasujiro Ozu’s final siIent fiIms, and it dispIays his compIete mastery of the form. With a vivid sense of character and the world of rural Japan, he sketches a poignant tale of famiIy secrets, jeaIousy, and creative community, buoyed by grace notes of humanist observation and by luminous bIack-and-white cinematography that shows his spare yet lyrical visuaIs at their most souIful.
FLOATlNG WEEDS
One of six sublime color masterworks that Yasujiro Ozu produced Iate in his career, the director’s second filming of his own 1934 silent triumph A Story of FIoating Weeds represents the mature flowering of his style. Harnessing the full expressive potentiaI of color, sound, music, and his exquisite compositional sense, he brings new depths of bittersweet feeling—tinged with an aging artist’s meIanchoIic nostalgia—as welI as a new air of expansiveness, to a story with enduring resonance. |
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