{"id":3441,"date":"2024-03-26T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2024-03-26T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:13:36","slug":"ken-and-robin-consume-media-perfect-days-a-cuban-cinema-classic-and-chilean-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/ken-and-robin-consume-media-perfect-days-a-cuban-cinema-classic-and-chilean-martial-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken and Robin Consume Media: Perfect Days, a Cuban Cinema Classic, and Chilean Martial Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon<\/a>. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we\u2019ll talk about in greater depth on a little podcast segment we like to call Tell Me More.<\/i> <\/p>\n

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Memories of Underdevelopment<\/a> (Film, Cuba, Tom\u00e1s Guti\u00e9rrez Alea, 1968) Dispossessed sophisticate (Sergio Corrieri) muses on the ex-wife who left him to emigrate and the deflated state of the nation as he pursues a naive would-be actress (Daisy Granados.) Indispensable snapshot of post-revolutionary malaise deftly transposes the discursive, interior structure of the literary novel into cinema.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

Perfect Days<\/a> (Film, Japan\/Germany, Wim Wenders, 2023) Uncommunicative Shibuya public toilet cleaner (K\u00f4ji Yakusho) fends off periodic interruptions to the stripped-down purity of his daily routine. The ultimate expression of a directorial career spent chasing the moments of moving transcendence from the works of Ozu, made possible by the supreme craft and presence of Japan\u2019s greatest active actor.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

Spoiled Children (Film, France, Bertrand Tavernier, 1977) Seeking isolation to crack his latest screenplay, a distinguished film director (Michel Piccoli) rents an apartment, only to become involved in a tenant\u2019s committee against an exploitative landlord and an affair with a conflicted young job-hunter (Christine Pascal.) Slice-of-life drama is unusual for an autobiographical work in presenting its protagonist as essentially distant and opaque.<\/p>\n

Good<\/h2>\n

The Wandering Princess (Film, Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka, 1960) Out of duty to when aristocratic family is pressured by the fascist military, a demure young woman (Machiko Ky\u00f4) sets aside her artistic ambitions to marry the brother of Japanese-occupied Manchuria\u2019s puppet emperor Puyi. Biographical melodrama depicts tumultuous events with a stately authority, but races through a key development in the protagonist\u2019s later life that cries out for the full treatment.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

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The Fist of the Condor<\/a> (Film, Chile, Ernesto D\u00edaz Espinoza, 2023) After an overlong retreat from the warrior path, a photophobic martial artist (Marko Zaror) battles the minions of his evil twin. Despite an over reliance on training sequences and mentor aphorisms, the cross-cultural vibe and acrobatic fight style are fresh enough to make me root for the team behind this scrappy effort to discover suspense beats and narrative momentum.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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