The Life of Oharu
The Life of Oharu is one of the Criterion Collection, which means it’s reckoned to be up there with the very best – by one outfit at least. The great director Lucile Hadžihalilović also rates it highly – it’s her favourite film by Kenji Mizoguchi and, she says, “the most poignant film I have ever seen about the life of a woman.” If you know Hadžihalilović’s films (like Innocence or The Ice Tower) watching The Life of Oharu is a real ah-haa experience. So this is where Hadžihalilović got so much of what she’s about. Talent borrows, genius steals, as someone famous once said (Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso or TS Eliot are all … Read more