Miyu Adapts Haruki Murakami Stories With Novel Animation Technique in ‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’
Speaking before a rapt audience at the Annecy Film Festival on Friday, director Pierre Földes, producers Tanguy Olivier and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, and artists from France’s Miyu Productions premiered work in progress footage from Földes’ “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman,” a 2D animated adaptation of a handful of Haruki Murakami stories that looks to translate the Japanese author’s idiosyncratic style as no feature has to date.
Murakami’s is a world of sex, surrealism and cigarettes, a liminal space where flights of fancy are never more than a sleepless and jazz-filled night away. Such is the world that Földes looks to recreate with his debut feature, a €6 million ($7.1 million) Franco-Canadian-Benelux coproduction that received the Eurimages Award at the 2016 Berlinale.
Per the synopsis on the website of Cinéma Defacto, which produces alongside Miyu: “A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated...
Murakami’s is a world of sex, surrealism and cigarettes, a liminal space where flights of fancy are never more than a sleepless and jazz-filled night away. Such is the world that Földes looks to recreate with his debut feature, a €6 million ($7.1 million) Franco-Canadian-Benelux coproduction that received the Eurimages Award at the 2016 Berlinale.
Per the synopsis on the website of Cinéma Defacto, which produces alongside Miyu: “A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated...
- 6/19/2021
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
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