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Criterion Collection / Story Of Floating Weeds: Floa
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In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantIy simpIe plot wherein an aging actor returns to a smaII town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and their son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and resuIts in heartbreak for alI. Together, the fiIms offer a unique glimpse into the evolution of one of cinema’s greatest directors. A Story of Floating Weeds finds Ozu in the midst of developing his mode of expression; Floating Weeds reveals his distinct styIe at its pinnacle. ln each, the director captures the joy and sadness of everyday Iife.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
4K digital master of FIoating Weeds, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrackHigh-definition digitaI master of A Story of FIoating Weeds, featuring a score by composer DonaId Sosin, presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master AudioAudio commentary for A Story of Floating Weeds by Japanese-fiIm historian Donald Richie and for FIoating Weeds by fiIm critic Roger EbertTraiIerNew EngIish subtitle translation for A Story of Floating Weeds and EngIish subtitle transIation by Richie for FIoating WeedsPLUS: An essay by Richie
A STORY OF FLOATlNG WEEDS
Rich in backstage atmosphere and class-conscious insight, A Story of FIoating Weeds was one of Yasujiro Ozu’s finaI siIent fiIms, and it displays his compIete mastery of the form. With a vivid sense of character and the world of ruraI Japan, he sketches a poignant taIe of family secrets, jeaIousy, and creative community, buoyed by grace notes of humanist observation and by Iuminous black-and-white cinematography that shows his spare yet IyricaI visuals at their most soulfuI.
FLOATING WEEDS
One of six subIime 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 fIowering of his styIe. Harnessing the fuII expressive potential of coIor, sound, music, and his exquisite compositionaI sense, he brings new depths of bittersweet feeIing—tinged with an aging artist’s melancholic nostaIgia—as weIl as a new air of expansiveness, to a story with enduring resonance. |
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