Akiresu to kame (2008)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Director:

Takeshi Kitano

Guionista:

Takeshi Kitano (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

20 septiembre 2008 (Japan)

Género:

Comedia

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Who is worse? The "bad" artist or the "bad" art world?

Reparto

Takeshi Kitano	...	Machisu Kuramochi
Kanako Higuchi	...	Sachiko
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Kumiko Aso	...	Sachiko - young
Aya Enjôji	...	Tomisuke's wife
Masatô Ibu	...	Akio Kikuta
Taigi Kobayashi
Akira Nakao	...	Risuke Kuramochi
Nao Omori	...	Picture Dealer (as Nao Ômori)
Ren Osugi	...	Tomisuke Kuramochi (as Ren Ôsugi)
Susumu Terajima	...	Yakuza pimp
Eri Tokunaga	...	Mari Kuramochi
Mariko Tsutsui	...	Haru Kuramochi
Yûrei Yanagi	...	Machisu - adolescent
Reikô Yoshioka	...	Machisu - young

También conocida como:

Achilles and the Tortoise (International: English title)
Aquiles y la tortuga (Argentina) (festival title) [es]

Duración:

119 min

País:

Japan

Idioma:

Japonés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Argentina:16 | Japan:G

Locaciones de Filmación:

Nikkatsu Studios, Tokyo, Japan

Compañía:

Bandai Visual Company

Who is worse? The "bad" artist or the "bad" art world?

This should be required viewing for everyone in the "art" world. Kitano skewers global modern art culture and also makes fun of his own work.

The story is simply of an artist from childhood to "middle age" (which seems to be around 62) as he tries to be a successful artist. He starts out as an untrained "primitive" but with a certain talent for texture and color. He is insulted at every turn while we get to see the "good" art by "masters" which are all really, really bad. Unfortunately the artist gets progressively worse as he takes advice from gallery owners on how to make his work "sellable", which it never is. Every time the work gets better, he's advised to go in a different direction. Many mildly humorous situations arise but the film isn't going for outright laughs most of the time. The scenes of the "middle aged" artist (played by Kitano) getting his supportive wife to make his art are very long, get progressively cruel (probably part of the point) and could have been cut down a little. The issue of autism isn't directly addressed but the character certainly exhibits symptoms.

This is a very good film although a little long. It may not be as good to someone who has no experience with the art world of today. Kitano created all the art in this film, good and purposely bad.