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Annecy Player ‘The Mourning Children’ Seeks to Give Life to Recorded History
Sunao Katabuchi's new film revives Heian-era Kyoto with rich detail drawn from Sei Shōnagon’s "The Pillow Book."
From the beginning of its Work in Progress session at Annecy’s Pierre Lamy Theatre, directors Sunao Katabuchi and Chie Uratani’s love of history couldn’t be clearer. The session, based around their upcoming film “ The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black,” almost immediately dived into discussing the immense period detail of their work. At the beginning of the session, co-director Uratani walked across the stage and covered her face with a fan before sitting behind a traditional bamboo screen, a smaller version of the kind used in the imperial court.
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