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?
00:06:12 What will I do after the race?
00:08:56 My world view is formed
00:11:01 It's incomprehensible.
00:13:30 What do you think, gentlemen?
00:16:18 I'm not suffering.
00:18:14 That's true.
00:21:07 without knowing what the Revolution is.
00:26:32 I've never had any doubt about that.
00:29:05 So I accepted it and I put it into practice.
00:31:32 He's a hero who chose to live as he likes.
00:39:45 Cinema moves from one film to another
00:43:31 that he is not, that he has never been afraid of it.
00:46:27 I felt like a surrealist.
00:48:43 politics, art or society
00:53:23 This likeness...
00:54:55 and then wanted us to leave.
00:56:49 Chance!
00:59:00 I was really involved. I wasn't there for fun.
01:02:18 Yes, it's possible that beauty has strengthened our resolve.
01:04:44 Is this the film you're planning to make this year?
01:07:04 So, as soon as the actors are in place
01:10:06 he has to do with what he has shot.