The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2022)
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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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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
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Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
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The first must-see film of the year.
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