Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (S)
1982 · Movie · 22 min. · France
Assayas' third short, Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982), shot in black-and-white with Elli Medeiros in the lead part, plays on a similar ambiguity as Rectangle. The film presents two novelists, one (Medeiros) returning from Japan with an adventure story she has not completed, the other (Laszlo Kovacs) in Japan, shown typing his next novel, and who apparently protected her during her stay and helped her fly back to France (she had become entangled in the theft of confidential documents and was kept captive, then chased by hoodlums after her escape). In the end, it is unclear whether the characters actually ever met each other, as each of them could have dreamed or thought out the story involving the other. Japan plays a rather cosmetic part in the film, and Assayas' attraction towards Asian culture was still quite diffuse at that point
Direction Olivier Assayas
Cast Elli Medeiros · Laszlo Szabo · Benoît Ferreux · Pascal Aubier · Katsumi Furukata · Nasaki Takatsuna · Mamada Yashida · Hiro Yamashita · Yoshi Iizawa · Seriko Nutini · Anton Féral
Screenplay Olivier Assayas
Cinematography Denis Lenoir
Original title Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (S)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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