![]() ![]() ![]() The feature debut of director, composer, and artist Pierre Földes (whose father, Peter Földes, was a pioneer of computer animation), the film adapts half a dozen of Murakami’s short stories from across three different collections to tell an episodic story of the struggle to find human connection in a dreary, disconnected world. (And yes, I am aware that this is ironic considering everything of Murakami’s that I have read has itself been a translation.) It’s not surprising that the most internationally acclaimed adaptations of Murakami’s writing - Lee Chang-dong’s Burning (2018) and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car (2021) - are both based on stories that are more grounded in the real world than many of his others and expand those stories’ sparse narratives so robustly that the films stand on their own as singular pieces of art.īut Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is different. His writing, which mixes the mundanity of everyday life with hefty dashes of the supernatural to create magical realist worlds, is immediately recognizable as his and his alone to attempt to recreate this unique form of enchantment on screen is to almost guarantee that something will be lost in translation. ![]() There have been few film adaptations of author Haruki Murakami’s work, though perhaps that is for the best. ![]()
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