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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 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. Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 121 MIN. Courtesy of Berlin Film Festival 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 ....
2020 Berlin Film Festival goes virtual, gets personal Angelika Jansen, Correspondent FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Maren Eggert won the top acting prize at the Berlin Film Festival for playing a scientist who falls in love with a robot (Dan Stevens).Christine FenzlShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Natsuko (Fasako Urabe) and Nozomi (Aoba Kawai) are strangers who form a tenuous friendship after meeting by chance in “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy.”Berlin Film FestivalShow MoreShow Less COVID-19 reduced this year’s Berlin Film Festival, normally attended by hundreds of thousands of film fans, to a virtual event attended only by the jurors, industry members and the press. ....
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Last modified on Fri 5 Mar 2021 05.22 EST 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 yearâs 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 â one of its characters is a specialist in French literature â 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. ....