Acteurist Oeuvre-View – Season 2 – Setsuko Hara: The Idiot (1951) & Early Summer (1951)

This time on our oeuvre-view of Setsuko Hara's (English-subtitled) career, Kurosawa's The Idiot/Hakuchi, based on Dostoevsky, is paired with Ozu's Early Summer for maximum tonal dissonance. Our heroine proves her range again—even with her Noriko roles. Join us for a discussion of sexual psychosis and tragic caritas in The Idiot and the perverse obsession with normalizing Noriko in Early Summer. Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:       The Idiot (1951) [dir: Akira Kurosawa] 0h 38m 22s:       Early Summer (1951) [dir: Yasujiro Ozo] 1h 16m 26s:       Elise Goes Wilder III & Farewell Olivia De Havilland          +++ * Check out our Complete Upcoming Episode Schedule * Catch up with Dave's fledgling Précis du cinema efforts on the Anagramsci Blog or on Letterboxd * Find Elise's latest film piece on Depression era film romance *And Read lots of Elise's Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at [email protected] Theme Music: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" – Le Tigre