Landmark Nuart Theatre
11272 Santa Monica Blvd
310.281.8223
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Tokyo!
- When
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Mar 20, 2009 – Mar 26, 2009
Daily
- Where
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- Price
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$10.50
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Note:
Those in the OC have their own screening tonight at the Edwards Westpark 8 Cinema in Irvine.
An imaginative ode to Japan's capital told in three parts, Tokyo! is cleverly linked by themes of alienation, identity, and destiny. Michel Gondry's "Interior Design" kicks off the triptych, chronicling a peculiar metamorphosis with the director's trademark surrealist flair. Léos Carax's "Merde" moves from Tokyo's tenements into the sewers, where a despicable leprechaun-type creature waits to gleefully terrorize innocent citizens, until his doppelgänger, a French attorney, intervenes on his behalf. Bong Joon-Ho concludes the metropolitan love letter with "Shaking Tokyo," zeroing in on a recluse whose comfortable existence is disrupted by a series of violent earthquakes and a beguiling pizza-delivery girl.
