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HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, An Autumn Afternoon, by Yasukiro Ozu...
Autumn Afternoon. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu, his 53rd and final film, made in 1963 and released here for the first time this year. It is a profoundly simple movie about an aged widower hanging onto and inhibiting an only daughter who has reached marriageable age. An older Japanese culture of tradition and ceremony is giving way before a newer Japan caught up in a mad scramble for things: golf clubs, refrigerators handbags. It is a realized testament to the Ozu art (Tokyo Story is the best known of his films); the still camera hugs the floor, the rhythmed sound...
...AUTUMN AFTERNOON. Yasujiro Ozu's last film, made in 1963: a serene, masterly speculation on the encroachments...
Autumn Afternoon. 1963. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu, his 53rd and final film. A profoundly simple film about an aged widower hanging on to an only daughter who has reached marriageable age. The old Japanese culture of tradition and ceremony is giving way before the Japan of its sons caught up in a scramble for things--golf clubs, refrigerators, hand-bags. It is a fully realized testament to the Ozu art; the still camera hugs the floor, the rhythmed sound and patterned surfaces give to his subjects the dignity due them. Harvard Square Cinema...
...gift is delivered, politely declined, but left behind anyway. The teacher tries not to look at the envelope containing the money, and suddenly lowers his face into his slightly trem bling hands. In this one motion, Ozu transforms a figure of faintly pathetic fun into a truly tragic individual. It is one measure of the richness of this al together remarkable film that Ozu is able to show such scenes without the slightest sentimentality, and with a hu mane and unique dignity...