Kiyoshi Kurosawa has neither the aura nor the genius of his illustrious namesake, Akira Kurosawa. But the Japanese filmmaker born in 1955 has behind him a solid reputation as a specialist in the strange and the fantastic (
Charisma
,
Kaïro
,
Jellyfish
,
Tokyo Sonata
). These are other ghosts he films in
The Sacrificed Lovers
, a spy melody against a backdrop of World War II, silver lion for best director in Venice in 2020. This first foray into the historical film, Kurosawa owes it to two of his former students at Tokyo University of the Arts, Tadashi Nohara and Ryusuke Hamaguchi. The latter became in five years and a handful of films (
Senses
,
Asako I and II
, the superb
Drive My Car
, screenplay prize at Cannes) a recognized author.
There is something of Modiano in the way of blurring the lines, of staging pretenses, of making the actions of the protagonists opaque.
Sacrificed Lovers
is a variation on his favorite theme: the couple.
In Kobe in 1941, Yusaku and his wife Satoko seem to spin the perfect love and ignore the violence of the story.
They continue to dress in the West
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