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Sunday 5th March at 5pm
The Sun
(PG )
Dir. Alexander Sokurov
Russia 2005
114 mins Subtitles
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After Sokurovs’ films on Stalin (Moloch) and Hitler (Taurus)
comes this character study of the Emperor Hirohito in the
wake of World War 2. Following the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito is summoned to make a humiliating
account of himself to an angry, contemptuous General Douglas
MacArthur. Like two alien species they regard each other,
as the Emperor struggles to an unthinkable decision - to
renounce the divinity accorded his position, and become a
man. The scratched, grainy look, murmuring unfocused soundtrack
and dark photography painfully evoke the apocalyptic atmosphere
of post- nuclear Japan like a pungent sepia science fiction
movie.
"as a portrait of pathology - that of
Japan and of Hirohito both - it’s terrific" Manolha
Dargis, The New York Times
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