| | H-Story Theatrical Release (Not Yet Available on DVD)
| Category | Foreign Films DVDs, Classic Movies, Theatrical Releases (Not Yet Available) Videos, Remake, Adaptation | | Starring | Beatrice Dalle, Caroline Champetier, Kuo Machida, Motoko Suhama, Nobuhiro Suwa, Hiroaki Umano, Michiko Yoshitake | | Director | Nobuhiro Suwa | | Composer | Haruyuki Suzuki | | Director of Photography | Caroline Champetier | | Editor | Nobuhiro Suwa | | Producer | Takenori Sento | | Screenwriter | Nobuhiro Suwa |
Nobuhiro Suwa's H-STORY playfully blurs the line between drama and documentary as it examines the impact of history (both world history and cinema history) on contemporary lives. Suwa plays himself as a filmmaker struggling to remake Alain Resnais' classic, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR. He's hired Beatrice Dalle (BETTY BLUE) and Hiroaki Umano to play the parts originally played by Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada. But Dalle is having problems with the original script (by Marguerite Duras). The camera constantly catches her complaining to her co-star, and eventually to the director (through a translator) about how the dialogue is "too poetic," and about Suwa's insistence that she repeat the same gestures over and over. As they attempt to recreate one scene, she keeps forgetting her lines. "I'm talking so much crap that I'm lost," she complains. Frustrated, she leaves the set with a visiting writer (Kou Machida) and explores the city. The sound continually drops out of the film, there are light flashes, and the dialogue sounds completely improvised, giving the illusion that these are outtakes from an aborted film project. Suwa's work is a canny and thought-provoking journey into one filmmaker's complex and fascinating morass.
This is the only Kuo Machida video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Motoko Suhama, Nobuhiro Suwa, Hiroaki Umano. H-Story | Orig Year | 2002 | | CD Universe Part number | 6870810 | | Release Date | New H-Story TR release date | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 111 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
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