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 Does Your Soul Have A Cold?
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6.30pm Thursday 17 April |
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Mike Mills’ striking documentary is a fascinating portrait of modern Tokyo and its inhabitants, sharing similar concerns with his debut feature film, Thumbsucker, in that it is about the harmful effects of mood-altering drugs on susceptible and conflicted people. Mills’ fascination with themes of addiction, malaise and suburban behaviour come to the fore and the result is an intriguing and brilliantly engaging film, which questions many Western ideas about depression.
The documentary centres around 5 Japanese people who have bought into the notion that pills will cure their ills. The style of the film is one of pristine perfection with exceptional touches, like filmic montages of possessions that provide a visceral insight into the subjects character. We see how depression and mental illness are viewed in Japan through this intimate and compassionate journey.
“Mills’ intriguing documentary [makes it] fascinating to observe a country ahead of the world in so many ways playing catch-up here, it’s the characters - ordinary and eccentric, desperate and content - who give the film’s concerns an achingly human context.”
Time Out.
Dir. Mike Mills - 2007 - USA - 82 mins - Cert PG - ID Distribution Ltd
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