À cause des filles..?
A wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
In 1969, Yamada Yōji released the first film featuring his irascible anti-hero Kuruma Torajirō, or Tora-san for short: a salt-of-the-earth type from Shibamata in Tōkyō's Katsushika ward, which through the series became the epitome of lower-middle-class Japan – a reliable old world of decency and straightforwardness where the liberal and the conservative found an almost impossible balance. Until the death of comedian Atsumi Kiyoshi in 1996, 47 more films were made, all but two under the direction of Yamada. However, as Atsumi was Tora-san, the series had to end, with a beautiful meta-coda called The Rainbow Seekers (1996), which considers all the Tora-sans of the world as cinema's true soul.
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here is another coda: a meditation on time's grace and horror, as well as an elegy for a lost world. But maybe through remembering it, we can keep some of its values alive? Let's find our Tora-san!
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
A contemporary film programme about the gaze of the old filmmaker, showing that the creative urge still burns as brightly as 50 years ago.
Read more about this programmeA wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
In his characteristic style, Andersson at his existential, succinct best: everything that makes life human, in an hour and fifteen minutes.
76'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
Yanis Varoufakis vs. EU financial establishment. A Kammerspiel-style classical political thriller that leaves no doubts about the good and the bad.
124'
France
IFFR 2020