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I racconti del cuscino

Titolo originale: The Pillow Book
  • 1995
  • VM14
  • 2h 6min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,5/10
14.012
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Vivian Wu in I racconti del cuscino (1995)
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Una donna con un feticcio per la scrittura del corpo cerca di trovare un amante e un calligrafo combinati.Una donna con un feticcio per la scrittura del corpo cerca di trovare un amante e un calligrafo combinati.Una donna con un feticcio per la scrittura del corpo cerca di trovare un amante e un calligrafo combinati.

  • Regia
    • Peter Greenaway
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Sei Shonagon
    • Peter Greenaway
  • Star
    • Vivian Wu
    • Ewan McGregor
    • Yoshi Oida
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,5/10
    14.012
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Peter Greenaway
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Sei Shonagon
      • Peter Greenaway
    • Star
      • Vivian Wu
      • Ewan McGregor
      • Yoshi Oida
    • 106Recensioni degli utenti
    • 41Recensioni della critica
    • 64Metascore
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      • 5 vittorie e 3 candidature totali

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    Interpreti principali99+

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    Vivian Wu
    Vivian Wu
    • Nagiko
    Ewan McGregor
    Ewan McGregor
    • Jerome
    Yoshi Oida
    Yoshi Oida
    • The Publisher
    Ken Ogata
    Ken Ogata
    • The Father
    Hideko Yoshida
    • The Aunt…
    Judy Ongg
    • The Mother
    Ken Mitsuishi
    • The Husband
    Yutaka Honda
    • Hoki
    Barbara Lott
    • Jerome's Mother
    Miwako Kawai
    • Young Nagiko
    Lynne Langdon
    Lynne Langdon
    • Jerome's sister
    • (as Lynne Frances Wachendorfer)
    Chizuru Ohnishi
    • Young Nagiko
    Shiho Takamatsu
    • Young Nagiko
    Aki Ishimaru
    • Young Nagiko
    Hisashi Hidaka
    • Calligrapher
    Dehong Chen
    • Calligrapher
    Ham Chau Luong
    • Calligrapher
    • (as Ham Cham Luong)
    Akihiro Nishida
    • Calligrapher
    • Regia
      • Peter Greenaway
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Sei Shonagon
      • Peter Greenaway
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    Recensioni degli utenti106

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    tedg

    Stop Making Sense

    I think Greenaway makes very smart films, and I'm really glad he's around. His intellect is always tuned to ideas about the visual, so we get a double measure: his images and his commentary on those same images. You should see this film if you think about communicating by image -- you won't find more beauty and recursive visual depth anywhere else.

    There are a few flaws in my mind, notable only because the film is so remarkable and because Greenaway shoots so high. A central dance here is the art of the writing (its appearance) and how that relates to the art the writing points to (its semantic meaning). So much elaboration of this works so well that I wonder why Greenaway went to such trouble to make the storyline so comprehensible. It is almost as if he is pandering to critics of his less accessible work. This greatly dilutes the impact for me, takes away from the point that the immediacy and fluidity and directness of the presentation by sense at least trumps the recoil by the mind. Perhaps is wholly substitutes. So why make so much sense? So that people will watch who wouldn't otherwise get it?

    I wish Greenaway played more with contrasting ritual with spontaneity, especially since the Japan/Hong Kong cultural contrast, the publishing versus modeling contrast (permanent versus faddish), and the promiscuous lovers versus the honored parents all set things up so well. In particular, the soluble temporary nature of the writing turned into permanent tattoos at the end. What of that? It looked decorative only. Her breasts her new pillowbook?

    If you liked this film, you'll like the book: `Life: a User's Manual' (Perec) which works the same territory but has a better sense of how to come to an end. The hero spends a decade traveling to paint watercolors. These are turned into jigsaw puzzles which he spends a decade reassembling, rebinding the paper, and bleaching out the image. Each puzzle reflects on a story associated with a room or person in the Paris apartment building he has maintained and populated with unwitting tenants.
    9raymond-15

    An erotic masterpiece.

    "The Pillow Book" is an erotic masterpiece. A story that unravels like a Japanese scroll. It teases and excites us with floating images. It's Greenaway's masterful technique, the same that he used so successfully in "Prospero's Books". He captures our attention and plays with our emotions. I don't understand one character in Japanese calligraphy but the idea of writing a poem or a prayer or a story on human skin is certainly an original one. Calligraphy is always charming to look at as the camera wanders about the human anatomy. Even the Lord's prayer in English takes on a very personal meaning when it scrawls across the chest and arms and ends up somewhere below the navel. The story itself is simple enough. Its about two people -a Japanese girl and a Westerner - falling in love. There's nothing new in that. But it's the progression of their romance through their calligraphic foreplay that binds our attention. It's beautifully and delicately portrayed - somewhat dream-like in its presentation. There's a suicide scene which one might expect would draw this romantic drama to a close, but no! the story gathers pace and races on to unexpected heights. Based on observations made by Sei Shonagon in the 10th century, the Pillow Book is a collection of 13 essays entitled "Book of Youth", "Book of the Seducer". "Book of Secrets", "Book of the Dead" etc. But essentially this is about "The Book of the Lover". Some audience will cringe with horror when they see how this book is prepared. Ewan McGregor and Vivian Wu are to be congratulated on their exceptional performances( and backed by a competent cast} in a most original and memorable production.
    PeachHamBeach

    Indescribable

    God, what words to use when trying to describe this film!!! Exotic, erotic??? Those are obvious choices that pop right up. Quite a bit of this film is spoken in Japanese, and I usually hate films with subtitles, yet I loved THE PILLOW BOOK. It is sensual, delicate and beautifully executed. The music is mysterious and sexy. The way it is filmed is pure art, like the unfolding of the pages of the book it's about. Nagiko (Vivian Wu) is trying to publish a book written in caligraphy but is rejected. Looking for someone with perfect skin, she decides to use the method of writing her caligraphy onto human skin the way her father did when she was a girl. There is plenty of naked Ewan McGregor to behold, and he gives a fine...ahem...acting performance also!!! Of course this film won't appeal to just anyone, but if you're in the mood for a visually striking, colorful, cultural piece of art film, try this one out.
    10LVGraham

    Cinematic Art

    Anything by Greenaway is bound to be cinematic Art, but this effort is particularly brilliant.

    It has full-frontal nudity, male and female -- not presented necessarily in sexual context, but you might want to pick your audience carefully. The nudity and homosexuality in the film are handled offhandedly and without prejudice, thus removing any hint of perversion or pornography. I know that sounds odd, but believe me, I'm a very conservative individual/artist.

    But that's not The Film -- the plot is intriguing, the Art is breathtaking, and the calligraphy, ahhhhhhh, is astoundingly beautiful, especially when transcribed on human form. The vessel and the content are one -- how sublime of author and director.

    My criticism? Sometimes Greenaway seems to think that we can simultaneously process all five lanes of the highway that run in his head. I, for one, am willing to watch his films twice. (Well, maybe not "The Falls").

    Greenaway offers food for my soul -- I kiss both his eyes.
    10AZINDN

    Words Made Flesh

    The Pillow Book is a rare film that transcends limitations of film and text in a unique handling by auteur Peter Greenaway. Based loosely on the tenth century writings of the imperial court observer, Sei Shonagon, Greenaway brings to the screen a rich visual amalgam that relies on stunning settings, the physical beauty of actors Vivian Wu and Ewan McGregor, and the joy of ancient and modern systems of writing that are the calligraphic arts.

    Greenaway's penchant for incorporating art, numbers, books, and architecture in a filmic medium ensure those who enjoy his style will not be disappointed. As a young child, Wu's character has celebrated her birthday's by having her father write the story of creation on her face in a family ritual celebration. However, with adulthood and marriage, her spouse is neither interested nor willing to continue her tradition. Frustrated at her inability to find a lover who is a good calligrapher, or a calligrapher who is a good lover, Wu finally meets a bi-sexual translator, Jerome (McGregor) who offers himself to Wu as a living surface for her erotic creativity. Inspired by the opportunity to obtain revenge on the publisher who blackmailed her father and is Jerome's lover, Wu's character, Nagiko creates the ultimate love poem illuminated in red, gold and black characters and delivered to the publisher on the naked body of Jerome.

    The Pillow Book is adult eroticism at it's most sensuous and visual best. It is a story that revels in the binaries of the profane and grotesque, yet delights the eye with Greenaway's ability to translate a vision of love and horror into a singular statement of lush physical beauty and passionate sexuality.

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      Ewan McGregor was uncomfortable about his parents watching the film, as he spends much of it being in the nude. His father took it well, and after seeing the film, responded to his son, via fax: "I'm glad you inherited one of my greatest attributes."
    • Blooper
      Nagiko says early on that her mother taught her Mandarin. Later, she says that she went to Hong Kong to improve the Chinese her mother taught her. However, the majority of people in Hong Kong speak Cantonese, not Mandarin.
    • Citazioni

      Nagiko: How can I get pleasure writing on you? You have to write on me.

      Jerome: Go on. Use my body like the pages of a book. Of your book.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Con Air/Bliss/Buddy/The Pillow Book/The Quiet Room (1997)
    • Colonne sonore
      Offering to the Saviour Gompo
      Performed by Buddhist Lamas & Monks of the Four Great Orders

      Courtesy of Lyrichord Disks New York

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    Dettagli

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    • Data di uscita
      • 25 ottobre 1996 (Italia)
    • Paesi di origine
      • Paesi Bassi
      • Regno Unito
      • Francia
      • Lussemburgo
    • Lingue
      • Inglese
      • Giapponese
      • Catonese
      • Mandarino
      • Francese
      • Italiano
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    • Aziende produttrici
      • Kasander & Wigman Productions
      • Woodline Films Ltd.
      • Alpha Film Corporation
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    • Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 2.372.744 USD
    • Lordo in tutto il mondo
      • 2.372.744 USD
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      • 1.75 : 1

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