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Whanganui Film Society screens Fukushima, Mon Amour

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6 May, 2018 06:00 AM2 mins to read

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Rosalie Thomass as Marie and Nami Kamata as Nami in a scene from Fukushima, Mon Amour.

Rosalie Thomass as Marie and Nami Kamata as Nami in a scene from Fukushima, Mon Amour.

Whanganui Film Society's screening next week is open to the public and comes to Whanganui courtesy of the Goethe Institut.

Fukushima, Mon Amour tells the story of a young German woman who bonds with an elderly Japanese woman during her tour of the Fukushima region in Japan.

Written and directed by German filmmaker Doris Dörrie, the 2016 film has been described as a "refreshingly quirky perspective on a heavy subject" by Variety reviewer Maggie Lee.

"A radiation vacation" – as the protagonist who survived 3/11 calls her brief encounter with a German volunteer – sums up the gallows humour of Dörrie's post-disaster traumedy, shot right in the middle of Fukushima's Exclusion Zone.

"In addition to the more exotic and crowd-pleasing Cherry Blossoms (2008), also about a German traveller trying to overcome personal loss by soaking up foreign culture, Dörrie has set other films in Japan, such as Enlightenment Guaranteed.

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"Having travelled all over the country some 25 times, she evinces a deep understanding of Japanese aesthetics and social dynamics … her penchant for drawing awkward misfits allows her to portray both German and Japanese protagonists alike as strangers in a strange land, and to dramatise the survivors' difficulty in comprehending their situation."

Whanganui Film Society memberships are available online or at the theatre before screenings.

Fukushima, Mon Amour screens at the Davis Theatre, Whanganui Regional Museum, Watt St, at 7pm on Monday, May 7.

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