Random Acts of Cinema

473 - The Insect Woman (1963)


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This week we return to the Shohei Imamura's "Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes" collection with his "entomological study" of one woman's lifelong struggle for survival and purpose in a cruel modern world. Style, ambiguity, and shock mark this as a classic Imamura story.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960).

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