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‘Cloud’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Takes Aim At Social Media With A Good Old Fashioned Thriller — Venice Film Festival
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Cloud' takes aim at the impact of social media while delivering a good old fashioned thriller — Venice Film Festival.
Actually, Cloud manages to be many things — a social document about online communications and how radically they have reshaped the world; a snappy shoot-em-up; and a brooding moral tale, its warning of ultimate doom saved for a final line delivered against a lurid sunset that makes the canopy of sky look poisoned. Outside that door, all the action takes place in warehouses, abandoned factories and, in one particularly decisive scene, a sewage farm; Tokyo in general seems to be strangled by its own engineering, while Yoshii is struggling to keep his head above his dubious merchandise even as the mob closes in on him. Title: Cloud Festival: Venice(Out Of Competition, Fiction) World sales: Nikkatsu Corporation Director/screenwriter: Kurosawa Kiyoshi Cast: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira, Amane Okayama, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Masataka Kubota Running time: 2 hr 4 min
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