It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi (2011)

ALL 07/08/2011 (fr) Documentary 73 Min
  • Release
    07/08/2011
  • Production
    Epileptic
  • Rotten tomato
    65%
  • Original title
    Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution - Masao Adachi
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is a portrait of Masao Adachi, who emerged during the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s as a screenwriter for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu, and directed a series of avant-garde films that grafted radical politics to the sexploitation genre. A 1971 visit to a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) training camp while on the way back from Cannes resulted in Adachi's most infamous film, the agit-prop documentary Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War, which he co-directed with Wakamatsu. Soon after, Adachi joined a splinter cell of the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, where he stayed from 1974 until he was deported to Japan in 1997 to serve time for passport violations.

  1. Story

  2. Annick Lemonnier

    Producer



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It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi (2011) 73 Min

ALL 07/08/2011 (fr)
Documentary
  • Release 07/08/2011
  • Production
    Epileptic
  • Original title Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution - Masao Adachi
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is a portrait of Masao Adachi, who emerged during the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s as a screenwriter for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu, and directed a series of avant-garde films that grafted radical politics to the sexploitation genre. A 1971 visit to a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) training camp while on the way back from Cannes resulted in Adachi's most infamous film, the agit-prop documentary Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War, which he co-directed with Wakamatsu. Soon after, Adachi joined a splinter cell of the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, where he stayed from 1974 until he was deported to Japan in 1997 to serve time for passport violations.

  1. Philippe Grandrieux

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Philippe Grandrieux

    Editor

  4. Annick Lemonnier

    Producer