It's samurai fiction by way of German expressionism in the trailer for
Samuray-S, a cinematic oddity from Argentine director Raul Perrone. Our own Patrick Holzapfel caught this one when it screened in Hamburg - check the links below for his review - and with it now making its local debut in Mar Del Plata we've found a striking trailer for the piece. Here's how the festival describes it:
The owner of a whorehouse decides to take revenge
on the samurai that killed his son. A young woman insists in
her love for a noble samurai, even though her grandmother
wants her to marry a villainous samurai. After having spent
a long time on the battlefront, another samurai returns from
the war and fails to acknowledge his wife. With an image
free from any kind of realism, Perrone builds up a film from
the visual somersaults of silent film, where synchronized
words didn't stop the action, in a string of expressive pale
faces that create narratives that border on expressionistic
hallucination. Samuray-s succeeds in combining image
kaleidoscopes with texts of delicate poetry at a pace where
a stylized poetry on the verge of abstraction coexists with
a certain graphic violence that the film contains in its
unusual oscillation.
Take a look at the trailer below.