Radiance

Date

Hour

Place

04/08

19:15

THE LUBELSKIE CINEMA

DESCRIPTION

A romantic, yet artistically fulfilled “film about film”, a melodrama by the Japanese master Naomi Kawase set in filmmakers’ community. Misako describes objects, feelings, and the world that surrounds them with a genuine passion. She works in audio description, creating subtitles for films meant to be read out loud for blind and visually impaired viewers. During a screening, the girl meets a famous camera operator, Masaya, whose eyesight is irreversibly deteriorating. The man who loses his light and the woman who chases it both realize they feel a fiery passion for one another.

AWARDS

2017 Cannes Film Festival — nominated for Palme d’Or, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

DIRECTOR

Naomi Kawase (1969) Japanese director. Studied television production at the Photography School in Osaka. In 1997, she became the youngest film director to win La Caméra d’Or for Best Debuting Director at Cannes Festival for her film Moe no Suzaku. A decade later, she came back there to receive Grand Prix for her fourth feature, The Mourning Forest.

FILMOGRAPHY