Keswick Film Club - Woman of the Dunes

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Saturday 26th February 5:00 PM

Woman of the Dunes 

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara Country: Japan
Cert: 15 Year: 1964 Length: 123 mins Language: Japanese

Audience Reaction

Score: 63.46% Attendance: 29

Links

  • More details on this film at the Internet Movie Database

Synopsis

An entomologist wandering the dunes in search of specimens is persuaded by local villagers to spend the night in a young widow’s shack at the bottom of a pit. In the morning the ladder has gone and, like the woman, he is forced to shovel sand out of the ever-filling pit to survive.

Critics

open_quote like a dream. . pulsing with eroticism and despair. . from which you awake bolt upright in a cold sweat close_quote Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian



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Keswick Film Club won the Best New Film Society at the British Federation Of Film Societies awards in 2000.

Since then, the club has won Film Society Of The Year and awards for Best Programme four times and Best Website twice.

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