Drawing comparisons to Lost in Translation and the Before trilogy, Sidonie in Japan is light on plot but heavy on lush imagery.
When speaking about Isabelle Huppert , the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven once said, "I have never seen an actor or actress add so much to the movie that was not in the script."At 71, the formidable French actor continues to enrich each role with an intense curiosity and vigour. And if anything, she has only grown more prolific; rarely do more than a few months pass without a new film to her name.
There's relatively little plot to speak of. Her press tour takes her across the country, from lively urban landscapes to Japan's resplendent coastline, accompanied by her attentive publicist Kenzo . Sidonie's travels invites countless cinematic comparisons. The drawn-out, naturalistic dialogue scenes recall Linklater's Before trilogy, while its striking compositions of Japanese landscapes and delicate unveiling of withheld feelings are reminiscent of
Co-writer Sophie Fillières, who featured in Anatomy of a Fall, died two months before the movie premiered at Venice Film Festival last September.It is at least amusing to see Sidonie innocently partake in a form of cinephile-specific racism; when she first meets Kenzo, whose last name is Mizoguchi, she immediately asks if he's related to the great filmmaker of the same surname.
Those musings on art and grief aren't quite enough to carry this movie past the point of fleeting enjoyment. At least the film excels as a tasteful 90-minute travelogue – especially for those craving an escape from the dead of winter.
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