14. Five Flavours Asian Film Festival: Beauty Water, Water of Life
“Beauty Water” by Cho Kyung-hun is an animation involved in the fight against the universal perception of human beauty and media patterns…
“Beauty Water” by Cho Kyung-hun is an animation involved in the fight against the universal perception of human beauty and media patterns…
One could get an impression that there are few “childhood films” that age as gently as Dark Crystal. As I return to it after years, it still suprises, draws my attention and scares me. And what is more important – the world is still alive.
Like Louise by the Shore (2016), the new work of the French animator, Jean-François Laguionie (this time cooperating with Xavier Picard), La Voyage du Prince, is an extremely reflective film. Again the main character is an older person – or rather a monkey – and again the picture largely consists of comments, observations and memories.
The masculine, brutal world is told from a woman’s perspective and with the addition of a classic dress-up motif.