Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman15

Directed by Pierre Földes | France | 2023 | 1h 40m | Starring Amaury de Crayencour, Mathilde Auneveux, Arnaud Maillard, Bruno Paviot, Féodor Atkine

An unhappy couple and an unambitious banker encounter a lost cat, a giant talking frog, and a tsunami as they try to save both their marriage and – more importantly – Tokyo from a monumental earthquake. A strange and stylish animation pondering large existential questions through small and meaningful interactions, based on a collection of short stories by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

Reviews

‘It has the ruminative lightness, almost weightlessness, the watercolour delicacy and reticence of the emotions, the sense of the uncanny, the insistent play of erotic possibility and that Murakami keynote: a cat.’
★★★★
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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We showed Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman between April 16, 2023 and April 20, 2023.

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