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Here is a couple who have their wedding close at hand. In the middle of the celebration party where their friends get together, it is accidentally exposed that the prospective groom had an affair in the past.
Passion
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Passhon, 激情, 열정, 暗湧情事
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Japan
15 May 2019
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France
15 May 2019
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Japan
22 Nov 2008
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it’s kinda like hamaguchi’s Husbands (1970) and i’m very much here for it
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63/100
Not polished enough for me to declare this Hamaguchi's first "great film", but my god this is unbelievable for a student film(to be fair, it was the final one he made before graduation). While technically this is a little rough around the edges, with the digital photography not used to its benefit, and instead serving as a slight layer of detachment and coldness(arguably this is thematically relevant, but I felt it was a bit too disjointed/rough for it to be the intention), but everything else is pretty spectacular for a student film. Hamaguchi seems to prefer questions to answers, and this is the farthest I've seen him lean in that direction -- the scene on violence in the classroom,…
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I need answer from you once again .
I know I could just go on google and ask it but since its around movies I decided to go here .
And question is how could I find passion for movies again.
During last months of previous year I took some time off cause of my concentration problems but that fixed itself.
But now cause of that time off I dont feel engaged by movies or Im not excited to watch them .
Im like whatever or they bore me even good ones .
Honestly I miss times when I could watch 2 or 3 movies on a day and still be excited for next day and what will I watch.
So what do you think, what should I do to get that passion back again.
I dont feel like I need another rest from films cause then I may become even more distant from them. -
With his two recent masterpieces, Hamaguchi’s swiftly emerged as the modern master of finding the seismic upheavals that potentially lurk in even the most ordinary human relationships; the way a sudden decision or revelation or change of vision or rash act can disrupt everything we had grown used to thinking we were stuck with forever. His vision, it turns out, is already fully formed in his thesis film (as scrappy and lo-fi as it is); six friends on a cheerful night out together and a seemingly conventional announcement that ends up sending at least half of them into an emotional tailspin over the next 36 or so hours. The wounds we inflict on one another simply by being together; the…
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Japanuary 2024: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Given that Passion is very much about the secrets we think we're keeping to ourselves and hiding from others, as well as our fears of being vulnerable with those we are supposed to feel closest to, I feel like the less known about it going into it, the better. I will say, though, that Hamaguchi appears to be one of those rare filmmakers who can make me feel every emotion there is to feel, resulting in an existential crisis. What is love, really? Where does violence come from? How do we fit into each other's lives? Can the most mundane activities we carry out together and our most ordinary interactions with each other have extraordinary impacts on our futures? All worth pondering...
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I'm tempted to describe Hamaguchi's debut film—made, and this is truly astonishing, while he was still a student—as a tragicomedy, but that's not quite right. Rather, it investigates with startling frankness the comic and tragic potential in love's relationship to self-discovery. The processes of coming to know oneself and of entering into relationship with another (or perhaps I should say, honoring the film's linguistic and philosophical precision, an other) are both inextricably linked and perpetually in conflict. Thus joy and thus heartbreak, not so much in sequence but in waves, a pattern that accompanies Hamaguchi's characters on the road to adulthood and perhaps well beyond.
The film begins as three couples share a meal at a restaurant for a birthday…
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…this was a STUDENT film?
Hamaguchi, under the influence of HUSBANDS, pleas for some decorum in love but knows that is a losing game: interlocutors will stick the knife into you the first chance they lose themselves. He only got better from here!
Violence of Desire.
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Gently destructive and like a low-key Cassavetes. Passion has this certain touching rawness which Hamaguchi smooths out by his later films in favour of a more deliberate craftsmanship who's qualities are equally as good. It's the closest Hamaguchi gets to his major American inspiration. And if this film alone proves anything, then it proves that Hamaguchi's own scripting started out exemplary.
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Be careful when you ask anyone's honest opinion on you, you may actually get it.
A bit of a mixed bag but the second half is really strong. Hamaguchi favors dialogues over visuals and does what he does best, exploring relationships and the human condition. Is confessing the same as being honest? It can be but you have to work at it.
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We’ve all come to that juncture, the crossroads of realization that while our close-knit circle of friends has played a significant role in shaping our identity, it is now opportune to forge new paths. As for the five poor souls ensnared in the throes of biting confrontations and moments of raw self-discovery in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s student film Passion - considering Tokyo is a sprawling metropolis teeming with fourteen million individuals, it may be an invaluable opportunity to diversify and enrich one’s connections and perspectives.
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On reconnaît le cinéaste d'Happy Hour dans ce premier film post-université, mais c'est beaucoup moins accompli. Il joue sur une ligne difficile parfois entre le didactisme d'un discours philosophique (le cours sur la violence ici, le cours de danse dans Happy Hour, deux réflexions sur ce qui nous lie à l'autre, l'impossibilité de connaître l'autre de l'intérieur, et donc l'importance de la confiance et de l'honnêteté) et une sensibilité humaine à la situation dans laquelle ce discours prend place; ici en gros je sentais que le discours était plus pesant et emportait les personnages. C'est un peu long, aussi, toutes ces confrontations et confessions, des personnages qui essaient d'aller au bout de l'honnêteté en faisant mal à tout le monde (y compris eux-mêmes, incapables qu'ils sont de bien se connaître), mais après il y a des moments magiques et on sent qu'à quelque part pas loin il y a un grand cinéaste sur le point d'émerger.
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nothing happens without desire.
there was an interview i once read where hamaguchi stated he was more concerned with emotion than he was with the performance of his actors. that statement stuck with me, as i have found that the films that mean the most to me may or may not have significant flaws, but they always elicit a strong emotional response from me. there are moments in passion (particularly the script) that i found unconvincing, but it wasn’t of importance to me because what matters to me at this stage in my cinephile journey is whether or not i find the film emotionally compelling - i may not have believed certain aspects of the story, but i nonetheless felt them.
life with no one to love is meaningless, right?
(08/12/2022)
