The Bigger Picture film club ? ?Late Spring? (1949) at East Dulwich Tavern on 21 May 2015

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The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ? ?Late Spring? (1949) at 8pm on Thursday, 21 May 2015, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern.

Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays a realistic middle-class widower with a marriageable daughter. Not wishing to see the girl resign herself to spinsterhood, Ryu pretends that he himself is about to be married. The game plan is to convince the daughter that there will be no room for her at home, thus forcing her to seek comfort and joy elsewhere. What makes this homey little domestic episode work is the rapport between Chisu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, who plays the daughter. Late Spring is no facile Hollywood farce; we like these people, believe in them, and wish them the best.

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu

108 minutes. Cert U. All tickets ?7.

Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm.

Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/307317

The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/

The Bigger Picture Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic?ref=tn_tnmn

Location:

Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern

1 Lordship Lane

London SE22 8EW

Rail: East Dulwich;

Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484

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Here's trailer for 'Late Spring':