公园的沙池
Garden Sandbox/Niwa no sunaba
After some misunderstanding,Sakaguchi is hired to make a tourist guide video on Tobako (a fictitious name for Kawaguchi) in the outskirts of Tokyo.This element in the script sparks off a fanciful wandering strewn with unexpected meetings.First with Kitagawa,thanks to whom Sakaguchi landed the job.Then with a seamstress,and then with Yoshino,with whom a half-hearted romance emerges.Thus the narrative unfolds,in halts and swerves,espousing unexpected meetings,and offering the strolling character an opportunity for displacements from one place to the next.The deserted town has come to a standstill – the shooting took place during the lockdown – and this acts as a metaphor for the idleness of the characters.Garden Sandbox is light and nimble,whereas its main character hasa limp.Her demeanour and her stiff body exude a peculiar quality,somewhat comically at odds with the setting.Apathetically playing along,the young woman gleans from each character some pieces of information about the town and,then,touch by touch she delineates its picture:ultimately,the place comes acrossas a post-industrial locale whose foundries are now obsolete.Sakaguchi’s very meanderings lead her to a rich family’s house for a sewing lesson.In this pivotal scene,the lady of the house invites her to don an upper-class wedding dress.Through a gesture both radical and powerful,which itself informs the dynamic of the film as a whole,a gleeful snip of the scissors transforms the item of clothing into the ultimate chic of haute-couture design.What weaves together this truant escape whose motifs and fabric seem inspired by Jacques Rozier’s films,a crumbling industrial heritage and the transforming of a traditional wedding dress?With Garden Sandbox,whose title is a reference to the type of sand used in the foundries,joyfully and playfully,Yukinori Kurokawa interrogates the concepts of mutation and (re)use as sources of boundless possibilities.(Claire Lasolle)
导演：黑川幸则
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