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    Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)

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    Date: 17 Jul 2011 11:53:15
    Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)

    Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)
    DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | 01:22:24 | 3,45 Gb
    Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
    Genre: Drama | Japan

    Osamu Minorikawa, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker, makes his feature debut in the form of an emminently visual cine-poem, that distances itself from the narrative imperatives of dramatic fiction to concentrate on atmospheres, image and sound. The film is made up of five episodes drawn from everyday life: the meditations of a 38-year-old single woman who works as a nude model in an artists’ studio, the life of an elderly alcoholic in Osaka, a young couple making love, the story of an astronomer and his pregnant partner and the reflections of a younger single woman who speculates on the ungraspable ‘somethings’ present in daily life. The film’s cast, headed by Ryuhei Matsuda (Big Bang Love Juvenile A), lend an exquisite tone to each of the five episodes which, despite their routine nature, capture those brief moments and small details that normally go unnoticed from day to day.

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    While the five stories told in the omnibus film Life Can Be So Wonderful are generally melancholy and quietly contemplative in tone, the title is not ironic. This first feature from young writer-director Osamu Minorikawa is instead a moody collection of “five cinema poems” that manages to find the grace, serenity and beauty in the minutia of everyday life – even when that minutia may be tinged with sadness. The first story is a portrait of an aging nude model and her relationship to nature. In the second tale (perhaps the most moving), an elderly alcoholic man reflects on his lifelong passion for booze and bars. The third is an erotic examination of a young woman’s ambivalent relationship with her sexual partner (and with beverages). The fourth segment – the most linear of the quintet – examines a young astronomer’s reaction to his girlfriend’s new pregnancy. The final tale, as subtly moving as the preceding four, concerns a lonely travel agent’s interactions with her protective mother.

    Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)

    While Life is an anthology film – and though Minorikawa employs different visual styles for each of the five stories – it does not feel fragmented; the film is very much a single piece and a beautiful one. The film looks at the solitude and uncertainty we all face and finds not self-pity, but transcendence and hope. The Japanese independent film equivalent to listening to an old blues or Nick Drake album at 3 in the morning with a bottle of wine, Life is understated but unforgettable.
    Travis Crawford
    Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)

    I was fortunate enough to attend the International Premiere of "Life Can Be So Wonderful" at the Miami Film Festival this year. At the premiere Director Osamu Minorikawa presented a question and answer session after the movie to explain his creative process behind the film. He described his movie as turning pages through the lives of five wandering Japanese people. It is perhaps better to address this movie as five different movies, presented in a way that was incredibly different and fresh to me–movie poetry. Each of the five movie poems followed the mundane life of a person living in Japan.

    Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)

    The first, a nude model, is a woman who is tangled in the beauty of modeling for art, its connotations, and her desire to be a muse of art. The poem incorporated a weave of images that captured different visual aspects of her story–interview-like images of the woman talking on a couch, lush plants outside the subway station that she passed everyday, and other flashes of scenes that portrayed her thoughts. While there was an absence of plot throughout the majority of the poems, which I can only guess will irk many of those who do not appreciate the essence of poetry, the movie served a different purpose: catering to the visual and auditory senses, Osamu Minorikawa accomplished with film what Ezra Pound managed to do through words. Many of the images will remain to haunt me, others were completely temporary, but it was the sensitivity of the film that really carried it to a different level. While many will disagree with its slow unraveling beauty in a culture of instant gratification and reason, personally, I found this film to be a breath of fresh air and an astounding journey.

    Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)

    Not eligible to be branched in the category of Academy Award dramas, the film is of a different genre. The only way to describe the five movie poems of "Life Can Be So Wonderful" would be to compare it to watching the beauty of waves on a beach– it enables you to see the wonder in life.
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    Life Can Be So Wonderful (2007)

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