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| One Wonderful Sunday (1947) | |
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Criterion's Eclipse collections have turned out to be a treasure trove of obscure goodies for film fans who've seen pretty much everything, or thought we had. One of the latest releases contains a set of postwar films by Akira Kurosawa, and we initiated the set with One Wonderful Sunday, a not-altogether-successful attempt to combine Italian neo-realism with Frank Capraesque whimsy. Isao Numazaki and Chieko Nakakita are young lovers spending their one day off a week with each other. They have little money, little hope, and few dreams of a better life, and what meager amounts they DO have of all three is scraped away from them by bitter reality. Little pieces of happiness keep them (and us, out there watching them on the screen) going until the film's climax, at the end of a long day, when the film turns into an absurdist piece of audience participation. I came away with much more of a "that was interesting" than "that was a good movie." |
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