Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Manhattan, Kansas - Tara Wray (2006)

I loved most of this personal journal. The filmmaker, Tara Wray, travels from NYC to the titular town to visit her estranged mother for the first time in six years. Beautiful Ozu-like shots of the landscape and details keep the eye occupied while Wray works out her feelings towards her mother's eccentricities and past behavior. Also, like several of Ozu's films, it explores that nebulous boundary where children become adults and where the parent/child relationship loses its intimacy.

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