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Hortense 2022-01-19 08:01:49
Beauty curled up in a water tank
The favorite shot in the film is Nuozi curled up in an exquisite water tank, shooting overhead. The black bottom water tank is translucent like a glass ball, but it has the two-dimensional beauty and harmony of Chinese painting.
The whole film is so curled up in the oriental and strange... -
Leanna 2022-01-19 08:01:49
Pillow Book: Putting Symbols Together into Emotion
If there is no paper in the world, what should calligraphy be written on to be the most beautiful?
The movie "Pillow Book" tells you that the answer is: the human body.
There has never been a movie that shows a man’s body repeatedly exposed to us. It is unobstructed. The only difference is that the...
Akihiro Nishida
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