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Rainy Days / Jours de pluie
Description
An elderly Japanese man boards a ferry bound for an unknown island. As he
looks out over the water, the falling rain triggers a string of memories,
including a childhood experience in Fukuoka and a brief encounter many years
later, aboard a smoke-filled seaside train. The only constant is the rain, a
woman and Mount Fuji. When the man arrives on the island, it begins to pour,
and a mysterious woman on a motorbike greets him…
Directed by Latvian filmmaker Vladimir Leschiov, Rainy Days
looks at three key moments in its protagonist’s life, when events that should
have happened never come to pass, yet change the course of his existence. The
unique animation technique used to create the film, consisting of black tea
and ink on paper and precise, delicate drawn lines, conjures a
warm and tranquil atmosphere that mirrors the man’s graceful acceptance of his
fate—and his awareness that all we have is what is.
2014, 08 min 13 s
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