Review of An Autumn Afternoon (1962) by Ben M — 20 Dec 2008
Has anyone I know seen this? No? Maybe? Well, pop down to your local library and check it out right now. Now, maybe it's because it was the first Ozu movie I saw, but I think this is his best. I have seen two others, Early Summer and Tokyo Story and I think all of his movies are remarkably alike, but that'swhat I love so much about them.
They are companions for each other, films covering the same subjects in much the same way, all as a means of providing a cinema of empathy, something the cinema hardly ever does well. The final scene is what gets me: A widower, a war survivor, resigns himself to his fate; being alone.
How he does this is haunting, both humbling and tragic.
This review of An Autumn Afternoon (1962) was written by Ben M on 20 December 2008.
An Autumn Afternoon has generally received very positive reviews.
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