It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi (2011) [N/A]
Release Date:
July 8, 2011
Original Title:
Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution - Masao Adachi
Alternate Titles:
美が私たちの決断をいっそう強めたのだろう 足立正生
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Epileptic
Production Countries:
France
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 73
The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is a portrait of Masao Adachi, who emerged during the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s as a screenwriter for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu, and directed a series of avant-garde films that grafted radical politics to the sexploitation genre. A 1971 visit to a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) training camp while on the way back from Cannes resulted in Adachi's most infamous film, the agit-prop documentary Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War, which he co-directed with Wakamatsu. Soon after, Adachi joined a splinter cell of the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, where he stayed from 1974 until he was deported to Japan in 1997 to serve time for passport violations.