Ryuichi Sakamoto – Opus, Evil Does Not Exist and other films to watch this week | Movie theater

Passed away on March 28, 2023, Japanese Ryuichi Sakamoto became known worldwide for his electronic music and also for his emblematic film soundtracks. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), by Nagisa Oshima (Palme d’Or at Cannes and BAFTA for best soundtrack) and by The Last Emperor (1987), by Bernardo Bertolucci (which won him the Oscar).

At the end of 2022, a few months before he died, Sakamoto entered studio 509 at the Japanese public broadcaster NHK, in Shibuya (Tokyo), and created a concert where he played solo 20 of the most distinctive pieces from his 50-year career, at an event which was transmitted via streaming to several countries around the world.

The reasons for a show like this were explained as follows: “My strength has deteriorated a lot, so a concert lasting from one hour to 90 minutes would be very difficult”. “Therefore, I recorded it song by song and put it together so that it can be presented as a conventional concert – which I believe can be enjoyable in the most normal way possible. Enjoy.”

And it was that last performance which resulted in this Opusa concert film directed by his son Neo Sora that premiered at the Venice Film Festival and is now arriving in Portuguese cinemas.

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Takumi and his daughter Hana live in a small village in the middle of a forest on the outskirts of Tokyo. The tranquility of their existence is threatened when a luxury camping project appears there that aims to attract tourists with the promise of experiencing nature in its purest state.

The community, which has become accustomed to being surrounded by almost unexplored mountains and lakes, is opposed, realizing how much this can alter the balance of the ecosystem and their lives.

Selected for the 2023 Venice Film Festival, where it was received with a standing ovation and won the Grand Jury Prize, a drama with an environmentalist theme written by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.

The soundtrack is written by singer and composer Eiko Ishibashi, who had already collaborated with Hamaguchi on the film Drive My Car, which won the Oscar for best international film (Japan), a category in which it also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. The performances were performed by Hitoshi Omika, Ryô Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka and Ayaka Shibutani.

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Coming from a Jewish family, Nicholas George Winton was born in London, on May 19, 1909. The greatest achievement of his life occurred in 1938, shortly before the start of the Second World War.

Upon realizing that Czechoslovakia was about to be invaded by German troops (something that lasted until 1945), he joined volunteers from the country’s Refugee Committee, helped draw up a list of children under 17 and came up with a plan transportation and reception in England, so that they would be spared the Nazi concentration camps, where millions of other people would end up being taken.

This operation to bring children to England, organized by the British Government and civil society, became known as Kindertransport. Nicholas Winton’s exploits were only made public in 1988, when he was invited onto the show That’s Life! of the BBC, in which he was surprised by the presence of some of the 669 people he had saved 50 years earlier.

In 2003, Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) and, in 2014, awarded the Order of the White Lion, the highest distinction in the Czech Republic, by then president Miloš Zeman.

Premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, this biographical drama was directed by James Hawes and is based on the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton (1909-2015), also known as the “British Schindler”, in reference to Oskar Schindler (1908-1974 ).

With Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn giving life to the protagonist in the two phases of life in which the film is interspersed, the cast also includes Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham Carter.

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English girls Tara, Em and Skye are 18 years old, have finished high school and are excited about their first trip without parental supervision. on one resort in Mália, on the island of Crete (Greece), they hope to experience the best vacation of their lives. But, between the beach, clubs, alcoholic drinks and fleeting relationships, they will come across situations for which they were not prepared.

Premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, a drama about sex and consent, written and directed by Molly Manning Walker, in her directorial debut. The cast includes Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Samuel Bottomley, Shaun Thomas, Enva Lewis and Laura Ambler.

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Adam’s (Andrew Scott) life changes the night he meets Harry (Paul Mescal), his neighbor on the sixth floor. As the relationship deepens and the love between them reveals itself, emotions long repressed by Adam seem to surface, creating in him a sudden need to return to his childhood home, located in a small town on the outskirts of London.

In this house, he meets his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), who appear to be the same age as they were when they died, 30 years earlier, in a tragic car accident.

Directed and written by Andrew Haigh (45 Years, My Friend Pete), a tender story about loss, loneliness and love in its various forms, based on the novel of the same name, written in 1987 by the Japanese Taichi Yamada (1934-2023) — already adapted into a film in 1988 by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

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