Take a romance story (something I love), make it written by Margrette Duras (someone who I hate and am confused by, but Len Berkman loves her) and then make it directed by Alain Renais (major loving) and you get a movie that really I just flat out love. The movie tells the story of a french actress who is in Japan on a film shoot and meets a Japanese architect. They have a brief affair, and some beautiful moments and pretty much that is the movie. When you sit down to watch this movie you aren't sitting down for an epic War & Peace type story (though this is one of the first movies to encorporate flashback sequences), but just a few beautiful moments and in that way the movie delivers ten fold. While not a movie for everyone, it certainly retains its importance to film history after almost 50 years. I give this movie a 9/10, if for only the first fifteen minutes of the film and it's poetic beauty.
9/10
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