Millennium Actress

Kon Satoshi | Japan | 2001 | PG

Satoshi Kon is an innovative writer and director of anime for grownups. His groundbreaking "Perfect Blue" (1997) was a surprisingly effective De Palma–esque psycho-thriller set in the world of J-pop 'idol singers'. ”Millennium Actress" is even less formulaic. Working exclusively in hand-drawn animation, without a single cop-out CGI effect, Satoshi makes visible the tricks played by the memories of a lifetime.

As a beloved Japanese film star of the World War II and postwar years searches for a lost love across a landscape of 20th-century upheaval, she also lives through a thousand years of Japanese history in her film roles… But even the most extravagant visual effects are firmly anchored in emotional veracity. Satoshi innovates not by pushing off into more extreme realms of adolescent fantasy, but by using all the resources of animation to tell complex dramatic stories, resources that in his hands seem almost limitless.

- David Chute, LA Weekly.

This film will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting of the the Wellington Film Society.

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