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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy spins yarns of connection and coincidence in the conditional tense Hamaguchi Ryusuke directs a triptych of awkward encounters in the muted tones of middle-class Japan, each surrounded with an air of speculation. 5 March 2021 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) “Excuse me, can you go back the same way?” The taxi turns around. This is the first manoeuvre in a film whose English title anticipates its narrative twists. Except this isn’t the same way, this isn’t quite repetition. The film is slippery with such divergencies. Premiering in this year’s Berlinale Competition, Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy continues the director’s interest in doublings, coincidences and duplicity that has earned him comparisons with Rivette and Rohmer since his debut melodrama, Passion, in 2008. ....