Doc Films
1212 E 59th St
773.702.8575
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Monday Feb 13 (7pm)
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$5
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Exhibiting a formal elegance and economy that's striking even for director Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) is justly acclaimed as a classic of World Cinema. Playing Keiko, a widowed bar hostess in Tokyo, Hideko Takamine gives potent and commanding performances. As we watch Kieko struggling to climb through a rigid social order, minute details are "excavated," acquiring profound psychological importance. When Naruse expands the scope of the film, the landscape that engulfs Keiko is revealed to be even more cold and desolate than it initially appeared.
