If you loved La Femme de Seisaku, try L'Ange rouge
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 Yasuzō Masumura, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to La Femme de Seisaku, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What L'Ange rouge is
Masumura directs a war film seemingly intent on dispensing with war-film machismo. A young nurse, Sakura, serves in field hospitals during the Sino-Japanese war and witnesses unimaginable suffering. She develops feelings for a morphine-addicted doctor. The film certainly earns its reputation as unflinching.
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