If you loved Nuit et brouillard au Japon, try L'Empire de la passion
Un pont entre un film que tu as déjà vu et un que peu de gens ont croisé. Voici ce qu'ils partagent, et ce que le second fait que le premier ne fait pas.
Ce qu'ils partagent
Both films are directed by Nagisa Ōshima, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Nuit et brouillard au Japon, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What L'Empire de la passion is
Dust-choked lanes after dusk. A hamlet’s edge where a discarded obi whispers nightly. The rickshaw man’s wife and a youth plot in hushed strokes behind shifting paper screens. A single blade glints then vanishes. Ōshima turns Meiji-era longing into a ghost story told in lingering torches and trembling shadows.
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