AU REVOIR L’ETE (HOTORI NO SAKUKO)

Au Revoir l'été

dir. Koji Fukada, Japan 2013, 126 mins, cert 12A, cast: Fumi Nikaido

Before 18 year old Sakuko starts university, she visits her aunt Mikie in a seemingly sleepy coastal Japanese town. Mikie meets up with old flame Ukichi who now manages the local love motel, whilst Sakuko gets to know a young Fukushima refugee who works there. A web of relationships evolve throughout the summer with a tone flitting between poetic teenage whimsy and raw human anxiety. New Japanese cinema meets French New Wave in this languid summery tale full of subtle complexities reminiscent in style of the great French filmmaker Eric Rohmer.

Tue 24 Apr 2015 @ The Horse Hospital, 7.30pm
(Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD)
Tickets: https://billetto.co.uk/events/au-revoir-l-ete-horse

Thur 28 Apr 2015 @ The Proud Archivist, 7pm
(entrance on Regent's Canal, Haggerston, London N1 5ET
Tickets: https://billetto.co.uk/events/au-revoir-l-ete

More information on the film can be found at www.day-for-night.org/au-revoir-l-ete

Tickets: The Horse Hospital: £8 in advance (£10 on door) / The Proud Archivist: £7 in advance (£8 on door)