Taste of Tea ★ Treb Cinema ★ 13/09

The Taste of Tea | Katsuhito Ishii | 2004 | Japan

In a peaceful village in Tochigi Prefecture, the Haruno family lives. The family’s youngest daughter is pursued by a giant version of herself that watches her constantly; the adolescent son falls in love, is disappointed, and falls in love again; the visiting uncle confronts ghosts from the past; and the mother works on a secret project of her own.

Ishii, who previously directed the violent, colorful animated sequence of Kill Bill: Volume 1 for Tarantino, turns here in the completely opposite direction—a slow, quiet, rural pace that contains surreal moments without any drama, as though it were the most natural thing in the world for a girl to feel that she has a giant double. The film is in no hurry to get anywhere and needs no plot-driven excuse—it is simply a portrait of an eccentric Japanese family and rural life, content to be what it is: intelligent, strange, and loving.

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Doors: 20:00 | Screening: 20:30