The Peony's whisper

The Peony's whisper

2016 · 65 min · ★ 3.7 · Documentary

Details from a portrait of Kinbakushi Akira Naka, through the otherness of image and speech; broken up memory, fragmented time, reminiscences of places, moments, faces and bodies, during a back-and-forth between the recollections of a child and the aspirations of a man in his fifties...

Directed by Vincent Guilbert

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