Movie: Ten Nights of Dream
Nov. 27th, 2009 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amediaWe saw Ten Nights of Dream (Yume jû-ya) listed among the new & featured movies on the Jaman listings on the Tivo one day, and thought it looked intriguing. Then, whaddaya know, Jaman put it up as their free movie of the week! So we downloaded it.
The movie is an anthology of ten short pieces by ten different directors, mostly live-action, based on stories by Natsume Soseki. They are all dreamlike in one way or another and frequently bizarre. Some of them are laugh-out-loud funny; others are sad or disturbing. Sometimes it's possible to piece together a coherent narrative from the clues given; sometimes it isn't and apparently wasn't meant to be. We watched one or two at a time and then talked about them over the course of a couple of days, which enriched the experience; it would have been much harder to sit through all ten in a theater, I think, and try to make sense of them or even remember them afterwards.
The movie is an anthology of ten short pieces by ten different directors, mostly live-action, based on stories by Natsume Soseki. They are all dreamlike in one way or another and frequently bizarre. Some of them are laugh-out-loud funny; others are sad or disturbing. Sometimes it's possible to piece together a coherent narrative from the clues given; sometimes it isn't and apparently wasn't meant to be. We watched one or two at a time and then talked about them over the course of a couple of days, which enriched the experience; it would have been much harder to sit through all ten in a theater, I think, and try to make sense of them or even remember them afterwards.
