Senkyo (Campain)

120 min, Japan, prod. Laboratory X, 2006

Director: Kazuhiro Soda
Photography, sound, editing: Kazuhiro Soda
Production: Laboratory X
25-90 35th Street #4H
Astoria, NY 11103
USA
Tel: +1 917 586 8620
www.laboratoryx.us
ksoda@nyc.rr.com

No-one understands what pushed this “dynamic businessman” (in the stamp and coin trade) to enter politics. Neither does one learn much more about his three-point “programme” (more nurseries?). All that counts is that his name and party be endlessly repeated, “because beyond three seconds, the electors remember nothing you tell them”. The candidate has not only to assume his own campaign expenses, but also unflinchingly bear his lieutenants’ reprimands and humiliations: he never does anything well! The film nonetheless finds its “Jiminy Cricket” in the candidate’s wife. While agreeing to assist her husband and play the perfect, not-yet-desperate housewife, she offers consistent resistance, which finally breaks out into open rebellion and “speaking some home truths”.

Thursday March 15th 6.00pm, Cinema 1 – debate
Saturday March 17th 2.00pm, Cinema 2

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