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Hanezu: Cannes 2011 Review

5:45 AM PDT 5/17/2011 by Maggie Lee

Cannes regular Naomi Kawase misses the mark with her visually rhapsodic but overbearingly metaphorical film about a threesome in rural Japan.

CANNES -- The magnificent and dramatic presence of Nature dwarfs human protagonists wallowing in a banal ménage a trois in Naomi Kawase’s visually rhapsodic but overbearingly metaphorical and emotionally wan Hanezu. Again evoking her favorite motifs of pregnancy, death, and heartbreak within the rural environs of Nara (Kawase’s hometown and location for all her works), the Japanese director sees no need in varying or transcending her personal blend of documentary and poetic-animist style.

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