PARADISE THEATRE presents UGETSU

"The value of people and objects truly depends on their setting."

THIS FEBRUARY- We're calling all Valentines to join us in Paradise for love stories that will take you to another dimension... The Paradise Presents: LOVE AFTER LIFE- six films that explore the existential matters of love beyond earthly existence.

16TH CENTURY JAPAN. We cannot have an Afterlife series without a ghost story, and we are proud to present one of the best. Kenji Mizoguchi's tale of ambition, love and war 1953's UGETSU.

By the time he made Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of a younger generation. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative about two villagers whose pursuit of fame and fortune leads them far astray from their loyal wives. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.

(Courtesy of Janus Films) 

Monday February 27th, 6 PM/5:30 PM Doors