The Tale of the Floating World ( Icarus's Drownings / D'après le naufrage / The Tale of the Floating World / L'objet du désir / Le radeau de la Méduse, Dérives / Dripping Ground Zero / Fontevraud, l'âme et la pierre ) ( According to the Shipwreck / The Object of Desire )

The Tale of the Floating World (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Icarus's Drownings / D'après le naufrage / The Tale of the Floating World / L'objet du désir / Le radeau de la Méduse, Dérives / Dripping Ground Zero / Fontevraud, l'âme et la pierre
Alternate Title: According to the Shipwreck / The Object of Desire
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1993-2002 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Alain Escalle

Written By:
Alain Escalle

Actors:
Yûko Nakamura ..... Woman from the past
Ryôya Kobayashi ..... Hiroyuki as a child
Kakuya Ohashi ..... Hiroyuki as an adult
Takuji Suzuki ..... Samurai
Kazuhiro Nakahara ..... Samurai
Alain Escalle ..... Extra
Yuko Kawamoto ..... Butoh dancer
Hiroyuki Kobayashi ..... Butoh dancer
Yasuhiro Suzuki ..... Butoh Dancer
Yukari Tamura ..... Butoh dancer

Synopsis:

Icarus's Drownings: Icarus' journeys from Antique Greece and its mythology, to Medieval Belgium and the paintings of Icarus' fall by Pieter Bruegel. D'après le naufrage: The film is based on the real drama of the French ship La Méduse at the end of the 18th century. Based on the painting by Théodore Géricault The Raft of the Medusa depicting humans in distress on a makeshift raft, the film develops four sequences (the storm, drownings, cannibalism and deliverance) around the scenes not revealed by the original painting . The film uses a narration of abstraction, claustrophobia and experimentation as visual emotions. The Tale of the Floating World: A monk reflects on his idyllic childhood and how the atom bomb annihilated that. Life turns from everyday pleasures, to a Hell on Earth of destruction, confusion and madness. A cultured lady playing her Koto in the garden, becomes a spirit ceaselessly roaming the wasteland like a ghost. People writhe and dance in agony. A samurai dreams of an honorable battle and awakes to the nightmare of no foe to face. People search for anything from their old life that makes sense, and find only sickness and chaos. Everything is left burning and ashen before fireworks in the sky, like tiny atoms in the air, explode to the end. L'objet du désir: A dreamlike vision of football and its world of lockers. A play between the sensuality of fragments of bodies and the damp spaces of the showers. Le radeau de la Méduse, Dérives: Dripping Ground Zero: Fontevraud, l'âme et la pierre:

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 12 July, 2020.