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A resounding yes! This is one of the most perfectly realized films I can remember, with beautiful photography, absorbing music/sounds and timeless story. I am sure I can not do it justice but just want to alert those who have not seen it. BTW it just came out on DVD.
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara of Japan in 1962
-SPOILER ALERT!-
it is the story of a school teacher who is on vacation collecting bugs in the sand (his hobby) and when he realizes he missed the bus home a local recommends he stay with a woman who has room in her shack. When they arrive there he climbs down a ladder into a pit where she lives, all seems fine until the morning when he goes outside and sees the ladder removed! He is trapped! The rest of the movie revolves around him adapting to his surroundings in which he has to shovel sand (to keep the town from being swallowed by the dunes) to get weekly rations and living with the women. They are both slaves and the interaction between the two is classic, the essence of life under a microscope.
I find it hard to put into words why you should see this Twilight Zone of a movie but was absorbed until the end, much like an Akira Kurowsawa film.
I hope you look into it
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Topic - Women in the Dunes - required viewing? - PhilJ 09:38:51 11/22/07 (2)
- Saw it three times on the big screen. So, yes! nt - clarkjohnsen 07:07:50 11/23/07 (0)
- RE: Women in the Dunes - required viewing? - Rod H. 10:13:41 11/22/07 (0)
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