Éloge de l'ombre

Catherine Martin
2023 - Documentary - 86 min

Homegrown cinema


Éloge de l'ombre

country:
Québec (Canada)
language:
French, Japanese
subtitles:
French

Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki’s literary essay Éloge de l’ombre, light and dark, and the origins of photography and cinema form the framework of this three-chapter “cinematic meditation”. Evanescent shadows glide into one another, weaving a spellbinding reverie in the inhabited half-light that brings us back to our presence in the world, to the passage of time, to the very essence of life and its fragility.

FST - French subtitles
EST - English subtitles
CC - Closed captions

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