Muddied Simply. Yasujirō Ozu. Late Autumn / Akibiyori / 秋日和

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Muddied Simply

Yasujirō Ozu

Late Autumn

Akibiyori
秋日和

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

This is Ozu's thinking: life is simple, and man never stops complicating it by 'disturbing still water' (as in the three companions in Late Autumn). [Deleuze Cinema 2, 1989: 14d]

C'est la pensée d'Ozu L la vie est simple, et l'homme ne cesse de la compliquer en « agitant l'eua dormante » (ainsi les trois compères de « Fin d'automne »). [Deleuze Cinéma 2, 1985: 25b]

[Below we see the three companions making a mess of the situation when trying to arrange marriages. At the end, they discuss life's simplicity.]

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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.