Cinema
Funeral Parade of Roses
薔薇の葬列
Toshio Matsumoto · 1969
Synopsis
Tokyo, in the late sixties. Eddie, a young transvestite, is the favourite of Gonda, owner of the bar Genet and a drug dealer, according to AlloCiné and Offi. Leda, older, Gonda's mistress and the figure of the bar, feels a growing jealousy. Flashbacks to Eddie's childhood run through the story, according to A Shaded View on Fashion, and the film constantly interrupts its fiction with documentary and experimental passages, shot in the city itself.
Context
The film freely transposes Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, according to Offi and a Greek festival in 2021. The role of Eddie is played by Peter, and the shooting took place in Tokyo, in the world of gay bars. The film was made with the Art Theatre Guild, according to the Yamagata festival. The cinematography is by Suzuki Tatsuo and the music by Yuasa Jōji. Long unreleased in French cinemas, it was only released there on 20 February 2019.
Who it is for
About one hundred and five minutes in black and white, somewhere between melodrama, experimental cinema and documentary.
Prizes and reception
The Athens festival regards it as the first Japanese film to show homosexuality and trans people so openly.
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