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2014 film

Still the Water
Film poster
Directed byNaomi Kawase
Written byNaomi Kawase
Produced byRémi Burah
Takehiko Aoki
Masamichi Sawada
Naomi Kawase
StarringNijirō Murakami
Jun Yoshinaga
Edited byTina Baz
Music byHasiken
Distributed byAsmik Ace
Release dates
  • 20 May 2014 (2014-05-20) (Cannes)
  • 26 July 2014 (2014-07-26) (Japan)
Running time110 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Still the Water (2つ目の窓, Futatsume no Mado) is a 2014 Japanese romance film written and directed by Naomi Kawase. It was filmed in the scenic nature of Amami City in Kagoshima Prefecture in 2013. The score was composed by singer-songwriter Hasiken.

Still the Water was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Describing the film as her "masterpiece", Kawase said it was deserving of the Palme d'Or. "This is the first time that I have said this about a film," the writer-director said, "After the Camera d'Or and the Grand Prix, there is nothing I want more than the Palme d'Or. I have my eyes on nothing else."

Cast

Cast and crew at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival

Reception

Still the Water has an approval rating of 52% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews, and an average rating of 5.7/10. Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 58 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Reviewing it at Cannes, Nikola Grozdanovic at Indiewire gave it a B+, stating that "'Still The Water' is a spectacle for the senses, which, if there is any justice, will be remembered as one of the greater films of the competition." In The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave it 3 out of 5 stars and stated, "Kawase's film is sometimes beautiful and moving but I couldn't help occasionally finding it a little contrived and self-conscious." In Film Business Asia, Derek Elley gave the film a rating of 2 out of 10, calling it "more empty, pretentious ramblings from self-styled auteur Kawase Naomi".

References

  1. "Lecture on cinematography in Amami by director Kawase" (in Japanese). Amami Online. 20 May 2014. Archived from the original on 20 May 2014.
  2. "News, HASIKEN official" (in Japanese). Hasiken. 20 May 2014.
  3. "2014 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  4. "Naomi Kawase: 'masterpiece' worth the Palme D'Or". Agence France-Presse. 10 May 2014.
  5. "Still the Water | Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes.
  6. "Still the Water". Metacritic.
  7. Grozdanovic, Nikola (20 May 2014). "Cannes Review: Naomi Kawase's 'Still The Water' Is A Spectacle For The Senses". Indiewire. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  8. Bradshaw, Peter (20 May 2014). "Cannes 2014 review: Still the Water – come on in, the daughter's lovely". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  9. Derek Elley (21 May 2014). "Still the Water". Film Business Asia. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

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Films directed by Naomi Kawase
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