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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2022)

June. 22,2022
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7.7
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NR
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An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.

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It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

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CrawlerChunky
2022/06/23

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Neive Bellamy
2022/06/24

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Edison Witt
2022/06/25

The first must-see film of the year.

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