Director’s 1st feature-length live-action film originally released in 1998
GKIDS announced on Bluesky on Monday that it will screen Hideaki Anno’s 1998 live-action film LOVE & POP in North American theaters beginning on February 21. The film will start playing at the IFC Center in New York City on February 21, and at the American Cinematheque’s Los Feliz Theatre in Los Angeles 3 on February 23, with more cities to be announced.
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© Love & Pop Productions.
The Japan Society held a screening on February 1 and describes the story:
“Everything in the world’s got a time for change,” muses high schooler Hiromi (Asumi Miwa) in Hideaki Anno’s dreamy day-in-the-life experiment—a diaristic stream of consciousness with shifting aspect ratios, rapid cuts and fisheye-lensed perspectives—capturing the 16-year-old’s delicate interiority on a single date: July 19, 1997. Hiromi records her life with the flash of her camera, documenting the roving exploits of her Band of Friends enquanto se reúnem e examinam a vasta gama de cafés, praças e shoppings de Shibuya, conversando sobre amor, desejo e meninos. Encantada por um deslumbrante anel de topá, ela investiga impulsivamente o mundo de Enjo Kosai (namoro compensado) para ganhar seu valor no final do dia. An intimate close-up of a teenage girl’s plaintive essence, the Evangelion creator’s live-action debut breaks away from convention in its liberating experimental form. Adapting Ryu Murakami’s (Coin Locker Babies, Audition) novel Love and Pop: Topaz II, Anno’s transgressive shot-on-video opus formulates a coda for the turn of millennia—a point-and-shoot testament of youth languishing in the perpetual disarray of Década perdida do Japão. O filme foi o primeiro filme de ação ao vivo de Anno, que ele dirigiu após o primeiro Anime de Evangelion de Neon Genesis e antes de Shin Godzilla e Shin Kamen Rider. 2004. p>