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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - 2021 BFI London Film Festival Review

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - 2021 BFI London Film Festival Review
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'Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy' Review: Three Chance-Driven Encounters Make for Two Happy Hours


Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Review: Three Chance-Driven Encounters Make for Two Happy Hours
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Review: Three Chance-Driven Encounters Make for Two Happy Hours
Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up Cannes-selected Asako I & II with a slight but satisfying trio of female-driven vignettes in which fate plays a central role.
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Running time: Running time: 121 MIN.
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When Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi made his return to fiction after time away in the realm of documentary, he dispensed with the idea that stories must conform to feature length. “Happy Hour,” the sprawling ensemble drama that sparked interest in him among cinephiles, ran more than five hours, and while his latest, “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” boasts a conventional enough running time of 121 minutes, the film is actually composed of three short stories, stitched together and some ....

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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy review – a triptych of light-touch philosophy


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Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film-maker whose work I first encountered in 2018 with his doppelgänger romance Asako I & II and indirectly via last year’s experimental chamber-piece Domains, whose screenwriter Tomoyuki Takahashi has worked with Hamaguchi. Now he has unveiled this ingenious, playful, sparklingly acted and thoroughly entertaining portmanteau collection of three movie tales.
Their themes and ideas are emerging as keynotes for this director: fate and coincidence, identity and role-play, and the mysteries of erotic pleasure and desire. There is a rather European flavour in the mix – one of its characters is a specialist in French literature – and I found myself thinking of Emmanuel Carrère and Milan Kundera. And although there is no formal connection between the stories (other than the thematic echoes) the simple act of juxtaposition creates something pleasingly cohesive. ....

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