Viewer Comments:Cafe Lumiere
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A quiet and meditative film about urban loneliness. It's an homage to Ozu, and quite an homage, since, from what I knom from Ozu, "Cafe Lumiere" refers to the same "restrainement" of emotions, and emotions more expressed through silence rather than dramatic (or sometimes melodramatic) expressionism. Another feeling that I've experienced watching this movie (and others by Hou Hsiao-Hsien) was a sense that my mind was..."wandering"--I mean drifting, as if I was at a cafe table, or taking the train with the characters, watching the events in the movie unfold in front of me.
All in all, I adored this movie, and I think Hou Hsiao-Hsien is one of the greatest filmmakers ever.
-Francisco José de Sousa Taveira (see my profile)
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