Human happiness Who do you think is this powerful old man? Don't tell me, you can't know that. This is a giant of thought, the father of Russian democracy and a person close to the emperor.
Hippolyte Matveevich stood up in all his beautiful height and looked at the sides confusedly. He did not understand anything, but knowing from experience that Ostap Bender never speaks in vain, he was silent.
And. Ilfa and E. Petrov "Twelve chairs"
Sometimes I want to please myself with the aesthetics of the movie “rising sun”. It's like being in a fairy tale. You're amazing. It is as if they had read, learned, and absorbed. Homes with gingerbread smiles of architectural delights. Doors, left-right flaps. The walls are thinned plywood. Floor - parquet flooring in light to shine. They walk on it, put dishes on it on occasion. The feast in the poses of the enlightened Buddha. Bowls with food, sticks instead of spoons, sandwiched between the fingers. People smelling like kimonos and clothes without buttons. Wooden galoshes on the feet with flip-flops are not for the bathroom at all. For the house, for the street, for the way. And most importantly, peace in the faces, whether female or male. This is Japan. Mysterious for the European country.
“The place where Mori lives” is the harmony of a ninety-four-year-old elder who lives in the middle of a metropolis world as an island of his own happiness. He is called a sage hermit, then a forest spirit in reverence. For thirty years he had not been outside the perimeter of his voluntary confinement. A small house, hedged, outlandish plants in a disorderly planting and a deep hole once dug by itself, which eventually became a small pond, fill the body and mind with peace from day to day. In the middle of all this, he lives. He walks here. It hosts countless pilgrim guests. He's old. Old and his wife. Curiosity has not gone anywhere. The decaying flesh is still able to push its legs forward on its own. The eyes did not lose their brilliance, they drilled with a penetrating drill into the questioner.
"The Place Where Mori Lives" is a story about an artist. One of the master's days. Morikazu Kumagai (Tsutomu Yamazaki) is the historical heritage of the country. A recognized but shunned wizard. Going beyond the public, understandable at least in the comprehension of his personality. Rewards and honors are overlooked. The emperor’s brilliant delights leave him indifferent. He's already over... He's already in for ...
The painting lacks canvases and canvases. The greatness of the plots we, the audience, will not be able to comprehend. It's not "Save Life with Picasso" (1996) where Anthony Hopkins' character "pollinates" one flower or another with his genius. And the brush with the ease of strokes of a stroke creates a masterpiece after a masterpiece. This is not Modigliani (2004) with Andy Garcia, who is always drunk with happiness, in awe of the one and only woman, Jeanne Hebuterne. It's not the old Renoir. Last Love (2012) with a young model-heart-eater. Renoir, who is only 76 years old, has arthritis, a wheelchair. A "Japanese" - 94 and he is independent, eats sausages, meat, cheerful and powerful.
The creative aspect in this film, the director shifted to the plane of the story about the artist himself. His works, or rather one work only appears on the screen, several times the calligraphy of hieroglyphs is demonstrated. To feel the spirit, to feel this amazing person, we must through contact and alignment with him. Daily observation of the life of insects, birds, fish gives energy to this organism. Their world echoes the nascent music in it. And painting is only a transformation of what is freely received.
The world around, faces of people with ordinary human passions and sorrows. Prose without a single spark.
Each of us is what we are.
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) is an involuntary comparison of what a life can be spent on. Same Renoir. The Last Love (2012) Smile at the Lust of 'Ancient Grandfather' "Twenty-six days in the life of Dostoevsky" (1980) about the creative career of a true maestro. "Leo Tolstoy" (1984) - a monument of personality over fellow tribesmen. And of course, Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is a reclusive retreat from people in Vermont. "The Place Where Mori Lives" (2018)
7 out of 10