Deep in the Valley 谷中暮色

Asian Premiere screening was held at City Plaza, Hong Kong on March 26th. The audience was very positive and enthusiastic to the film and Q&A session after the screening became quite heated-up discussion. Director Funahashi has gone back to Tokyo, but there will be another screening on April 2nd. For details;
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/1173.html

This week “Deep in the Valley” will have its Asian Premiere at Hong Kong International Film Festival. It will be screened twice, on March 26th and April 2nd. It’s also nominated for the SIGNIS award. Atsushi Funahashi will be flying to Hong Kong tomorrow to attend the screening and Q&A on 26th. Please check it out!

Screenings
Date:      26 Mar 2009
Time:     7:15  PM
Code:     26UC3E1
Venue:      UA Cityplaza

Date:     02  Apr 2009
Time:     7:30 PM
Code:      02UL4E1
Venue:     UA Langham  Place

http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/1173.html

Here are the tag lines of positive reviews on “Deep in the Valley.”

Persuasive, thought-provoking and occasionally touching: a kind of “8mm Paradiso,” Japanese-style.
- Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter

Impeccable, poetry and reflexion integrating attitudes.
- Von Heike Kühn, Frankfurter Rundschau

Interweaving documentary and fiction, as well as the use of black-and-white and colour, with an extraordinary sense of visual poetry, the director brings these contrasting societies together.
- Anne Thomas, dw-world.de.

Understated, never didactic, the films draws the past into the lives of its young, present-day protagonists, luring them to discover it and to find themselves.

- Latika Padgaonkar, DearCinea.com, (India’s biggest web portal of cinema.)

It is this young man who committed the impossible act of knocking his master off the throne that the older generation admires today as one of the great founders of tradition. This relativizes the conflict between the generations very nicely.
- Christoph Terhechte, Program Director,

Forum of New Cinema, Berlin International Film Festival

Another great review has come out. It is by Latika Padgaonkar for DearCinema.com, India’s biggest portal for cinema.

“Understated, never didactic, the film draws the past into the lives of its young, present-day protagonists, luring them to discover it and to find themselves.”

You can see the full article;

http://dearcinema.com/fresh-from-berlin-deep-in-the-valley/

The full line-up of Hong Kong International Film Festival has just been released. “Deep in the Valley” will be screened twice in their Indie Power section.

http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/25/1173.html

Director Atsushi Funahashi will attend the screening and Q&A on March 26th.

Thanks!