It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi
2011 · 73 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 139 VOTES · DIR. Philippe Grandrieux
Overview
The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is a portrait of Masao Adachi, who emerged during the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s as a screenwriter for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu, and directed a series of avant-garde films that grafted radical politics to the sexploitation genre. A 1971 visit to a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) training camp while on the way back from Cannes resulted in Adachi's most infamous film, the agit-prop documentary Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War, which he co-directed with Wakamatsu. Soon after, Adachi joined a splinter cell of the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, where he stayed from 1974 until he was deported to Japan in 1997 to serve time for passport violations.
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00:00:01 IT MAY BE THAT BEAUTY HAS STREGTHENED OUR RESOLVE
00:04:00 Too sentimental?
00:06:16 Run.
00:09:05 That's what makes it.
00:11:11 Incomprehensible...
00:14:01 I never stopped looking for someone.
00:16:34 What am I supposed to do?
00:18:34 It doesn't matter either.
00:21:26 That's it.
00:27:17 He was torn between politics and art.
00:29:57 Ultimately I'm a surrealist.
00:32:39 Neither Soviet or Chinese.
00:40:26 The Thief's Journal.
00:45:13 that it was enough to broach the subject of reality
00:47:27 I preferred to evoke the entire suffocationg atmosphere
00:52:21 more than the sound of bombs and bullets that he would later hear
00:54:08 No way! I didn't want to.
00:55:45 We screened the movie all over the place.
00:58:03 I was prompted due to their deplorable inability.
00:59:57 Sometimes he came twice a year.
01:04:17 This is the film I want to make.
01:06:16 We'll film everything, including the times I direct them.
01:09:35 Films are made of these dislocations
01:12:28 To return to the sensation?