Yasujiro Ozu – Carnets 1933-1966

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Author: Yasujiro Ozu

Publishing House: Carlotta Films

Publication Date: 26 November 2020

Yasujirô Ozu (1903-1963) is one of the greatest filmmakers in the world. His work is unique and touches, as some say, a “beyond” of cinema. How did this man come to create such a strong cinematographic work of such universal significance? In these Notebooks, the carefree youth and the fascination for the sophisticated American comedies of the 1930s, the experience of the war and its horrors (1938-1939) and finally, the maturity and the achievement of an exceptional work (1950s-60s), before death came (1963). It is in a complete translation, revised and expanded compared to the version published in 1996, that the “Ozuian” thought is now offered to the reader. The magnificent preface, written at the time by the filmmaker Alain Corneau, has been preserved.

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Description

Yasujiro Ozu’s films analyse the existential struggles we are all eventually faced with: the cycle of life, the transition from childhood to adulthood, the conflict between tradition and modernity… The publication of his personal notes allows us to discover the intimate views of a pioneer of cinema!