‘Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujirō Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time…’ So begins this remarkable essay in narrative reconstruction. Film-critic, novelist and essayist Mars-Jones gives a virtuoso performance as the lost figure of film explainer, drawing out a host of meaning from the reticence of Ozu’s classic Japanese movie.
‘So long after its first release Late Spring is still limber and elusive,’ enthuses Mars-Jones. Noriko Smiling breathes new life into both Ozu’s film, and film studies as a whole. There has never been a film book like this.
- ISBN10 1907903674
- ISBN13 9781907903670
- Publish Date 22 November 2012 (first published 8 August 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Notting Hill Editions
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 246
- Language English