2020 / drama / 480min (8 hours) /
directed by Anders Edström, C.W. Winter / written by C.W. Winter, Tayoko Shiojiri /
country: U.S.A, Sweden, Japan, U.K. / language: Japanese, English, Swedish with English subtitles/
*PLAYING SAT 7/24 AND SUN 7/25 ONLY
“The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) is an extraordinary eight-hour fiction feature shot for a total of 27 weeks, over a period of 14 months, in a village of 47 inhabitants in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. It is a film that takes the time to spend time and hear people out, with a performance by Tayoko Shiojiri that binds fiction and actual bereavement into a heartbreaking indeterminability.”
LUMIERE CINEMA 