Stationary Time. Yasujirō Ozu. A Story of Floating Weeds / Ukigusa monogatari 浮草物語 & Floating Weeds / Ukigusa 浮草

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Stationary Time

Yasujirō Ozu

A Story of Floating Weeds

Ukigusa monogatari

浮草物語

and

Floating Weeds

Ukigusa

浮草

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 2: The Time Image

Cinéma 2: L'image-temps

Ch.1
Beyond the Movement Image
Au-delà de l'image-mouvement

2d

Time as unchanging form

Le temps comme forme immuable

A bicycle may also endure; that is, represent the unchanging form of that which moves, so long as it is at rest, motionless, stood against the wall (A Story of Floating Weeds). [Deleuze Cinema 2, 1989: 16-17]

Une bicyclette aussi peut durer, c'est-à-dire représenter la forme immuable de ce qui se meut, à condition de demeurer, de rester immobile, rangée contre le mur (« Histoire d'herbes flottantes »). [Deleuze Cinéma 2, 1985: 28b]

[Here is the original version. First we see the girl and boy meet. The girl is given the task of seducing the boy, which is what happens at the trees. Afterward we see the bike still-life. The next scene at the tracks is when they decide to stay together. We see there also the still bike. In both cases, a pivotal moment in the story occurs. But it is accompanied by a still-life. We see something that does not change explicitly, all while implicitly the greatest changes of the story take place. It is in this way that Ozu's still-lifes show the unchanging form of time in which all changes take place.]

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[In the second version of the movie, we also see the still bike during the seduction scene, and it seems more as though it were leaning against a wall.]

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. London & New York: 1989.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 2: L'image-temps. Paris: Les éditions de minuit, 1985.

Sharpened Tears. Yasujirō Ozu. The End of Summer (Dernier caprice) / Kohayagawake no aki / 小早川家の秋

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Sharpened Tears

Yasujirō Ozu

The End of Summer

(Dernier caprice)

Kohayagawake no aki
小早川家の秋

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 2: The Time Image

Cinéma 2: L'image-temps

Ch.1
Beyond the Movement Image
Au-delà de l'image-mouvement

2b

Everyday banality

La banalité quotidienne

The famous scenes of sudden tears (that of the father in An Autumn Afternoon who starts to weep silently after his daughter's wedding, that of the daughter in Late Spring who half smiles as she looks at her sleeping father, then finds herself on the verge of tears, that of the daughter in Dernier caprice who makes a sharp comment about her dead father, then bursts into tears) do not mark out a strong period which might be contrasted with the weak periods in the flow of life, and there is no reason to suggest the emergence of a repressed emotion as 'decisive action'. [Deleuze Cinema 2, 1989: 14ab]

Les célèbres scènes de larmes soudaines (celle du père d'« Un après-midi d'automne » qui se met à pleurer silencieusement après le mariage de sa fille, celle de la fille de « Printemps tardif » qui sourit à demi en regardant son père endormi, puis se retrouve au bord des larmes, celle de la fille de « Dernier caprice » qui fait une remarque aigre sur son père mort, puis éclate en sanglots) ne marquent pas un temps fort qui s'opposerait aux temps faibles de la vie courante, et il n'y a aucune raison d'invoquer l'émergence d'une émotion refoulée comme « action décisive ». [Deleuze Cinéma 2, 1985: 24cd]

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Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. London & New York: 1989.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 2: L'image-temps. Paris: Les éditions de minuit, 1985.

The Flavour of Rice over Coca-Cola. Yasujirō Ozu. An Autumn Afternoon / Sanma no aji / 秋刀魚の味

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The Flavour of Rice over Coca-Cola

Yasujirō Ozu

An Autumn Afternoon

Sanma no aji
秋刀魚の味

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 2: The Time Image

Cinéma 2: L'image-temps

Ch.1
Beyond the Movement Image
Au-delà de l'image-mouvement

2b

Everyday banality

La banalité quotidienne

American ordinariness helps break down what is ordinary about Japan, a clash of two everyday realities which is even expressed in colour, when Coca-Cola red or plastic yellow violently interrupt the series of washed-out, unemphatic tones of Japanese life. And, as the character in The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice [sic: An Autumn Afternoon ?]: what if the opposite had occurred, if saki, samisen and geisha wigs had suddenly been introduced into the banality of Americans. . .? [Deleuze Cinema 2, 1989: 14-15]

l'ordinaire américain vient percuter l'ordinaire du Japon, heurt de deux quotidiennetés qu s'exprime jusque dans la couleur, lorsque le rouge Coca-cola ou le jaune plastique font brutalement irruption dans la série des teintes délavées, inaccentuées, de la vie japonaise. Et comme dit un personnage du « Goût du saké » : si ç'avait été l'inverse, si le saké, le samisen et les perruques de geisha s'étaient soudain introduits dans la banalité quotidienne des Américains...? Deleuze Cinéma 2, 1985: 25c]

[In The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice, there is not a conversation like what is described in the quotation above. The French title for The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice it seems is Le Goût du riz au thé vert. However, the title Deleuze uses in the Cinéma text is Goût du saké, which we understand is the French title for An Autumn Afternoon. In this movie there is a conversation that is vaguely like what Deleuze describes. Here is that scene, in case it expresses Deleuze's point. Before it is a small clip from End of Summer, showing a Coke sign on the wall.]

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Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. London & New York: 1989.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 2: L'image-temps. Paris: Les éditions de minuit, 1985.

Marvels Composed. Yasujirō Ozu. Floating Weeds / Ukigusa / 浮草

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Marvels Composed

Yasujirō Ozu

Floating Weeds

Ukigusa

浮草

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 2: The Time Image

Cinéma 2: L'image-temps

Ch.1
Beyond the Movement Image
Au-delà de l'image-mouvement

2c

Empty spaces and still lifes

Espaces vides et natures mortes

the marvellous composition with the bottle and the lighthouse, at the beginning of A Story of Floating Weeds [sic: Floating Weeds]. [Deleuze Cinema 2, 1989: 16bc]

l'admirable composition à la bouteille et au phare, au début d'« Herbes flottantes ». [Deleuze Cinéma 2, 1985: 27b]

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Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. London & New York: 1989.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 2: L'image-temps. Paris:Les éditions de minuit, 1985.

Cries of Silence. Yasujirō Ozu. An Autumn Afternoon / Sanma no aji / 秋刀魚の味

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Cries of Silence

Yasujirō Ozu

An Autumn Afternoon
Sanma no aji
秋刀魚の味

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 2: The Time Image

Cinéma 2: L'image-temps

Ch.1
Beyond the Movement Image
Au-delà de l'image-mouvement

2b

Everyday banality

La banalité quotidienne

In Ozu, everything is ordinary or banal, even death and the dead who are the object of a natural forgetting. The famous scenes of sudden tears (that of the father in An Autumn Afternoon who starts to weep silently after his daughter's wedding, that of the daughter inLate Spring who half smiles as she looks at her sleeping father, then finds herself on the verge of tears, that of the daughter in Dernier caprice who makes a sharp comment about her dead father, then bursts into tears) do not mark out a strong period which might be contrasted with the weak periods in the flow of life, and there is no reason to suggest the emergence of a repressed emotion as 'decisive action'. [Deleuze Cinema 2, 1989: 14ab]

Chez Ozu, tout est ordinaire ou banal, même la mort et les morts qui font l'objet duun oubli naturel. Les célèbres scènes de larmes soudaines (celle du père d'« Un après-midi d'automne » qui se met à pleurer silencieusement après le mariage de sa fille, celle de la fille de «Printemps tardif » qui sourit à demi en regardant son père endormi, puis se retrouve au bord des larmes, celle de la fille de « Dernier caprice » qui fait une remarque aigre sur son père mort, puis éclate en sanglots) ne marquent pas un temps fort qui s'opposerait aux temps faibles de la vie courante, et il n'y a aucune raison d'invoquer l'émergence d'une émotion refoulée comme « action décisive ». [Deleuze Cinéma 2, 1985: 24cd]

[Videos should play when the button is clicked, despite not showing an image until then.]

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. London & New York: 1989.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 2: L'image-temps. Paris: Les éditions de minuit, 1985.