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TOWARD A COMMON TENDERNESS

By Kaori ODA

METROPOLITAN PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT, INC. - as CONS

Documentary - Completed 2017

Kaori Oda’s film has a mysterious beauty, a beauty on uncertain terrain. Perhaps it most resembles the kind described by Robert Bresson in his “Notes on Cinematography”: “The beauty of your film will not be in the images (postcardism) but in the ineffable that they will emit.”

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Doc Leipzig 2017

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Documentary, Second film
- Countries
- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JAPAN
- Languages
- BOSNIAN, JAPANESE
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 63 mn
- Director(s)
- Kaori ODA
- Writer(s)
- Kaori ODA
- Producer(s)
- Shinji KITAGAWA
- Synopsis
- A young Japanese woman in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is both subject and object of a poetic film research in a foreign land. She embarks on a physical and spiritual journey in attempt to inscribe herself into unfamiliar daily routines. Nomadic invididuality on lonely outposts. What could easily have become self-satisfied introspection is shown in “Toward a Common Tenderness” as a deficient state of being that must be cracked open. The camera becomes the filmmaker’s physical and spiritual tool to capture her own story, her current human and geographical environment and a path through life that may or may not result from this.

TOWARD A COMMON TENDERNESS

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