Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2023)
February 24, 2023Release Date
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2023)
February 24, 2023Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Katharine King So
Shimao (voice)
Shoshana Wilder
Kyoko (voice)
Jesse Noah Gruman
Junpei (voice)
John Vamvas
Manager (voice)
Zag Dorison
Ken (voice)
Amaury de Crayencour
Komura (voice)
Mathilde Auneveux
Kyoko (voice)
Arnaud Maillard
Katagiri (voice)
Bruno Paviot
Sasaki (voice)
Féodor Atkine
M. Suzuki (voice)
Pierre Földes
Frog (voice) / Director / Screenplay / Music / Art Direction
Théophile Baquet
Junpei (voice)
Julien Crampon
Hiroshi (voice)
Damien Zanoly
Shiraoka (voice)
Laurent Stocker
Ken (voice)
Jean-Pierre Malignon
Restaurant Owner (voice)
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Old Man (voice)
Isabelle Vitari
Keiko (voice)
Géraldine Schitter
Shimao (voice)
Ingrid Donnadieu
Nurse (voice)
Marie-Christine Barrault
Komura's Mother (voice)
Noée Abita
Lass (voice)
Kate Yablunovsky
CastingDirector
Michel Schillings
Mixing Engineer
Kara Blake
Editor
Pierre Urbain
Producer
David Mouraire
Producer
Luc Déry
Producer
Kim McCraw
Producer
Galilé Marion-Gauvin
Producer
Joost de Vries
Producer
Julien De Man
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 24, 2023
Original NameSaules aveugles, femme endormie
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 45m
Budget$6,900,000
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This Movie Is About.
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (French: Saules aveugles, femme endormie) is a 2022 animated anthology drama film written, produced, directed and composed by Pierre Földes. An international co-production of Canada, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the film, set in Tokyo shortly after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, adapts six short stories from three collections by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, The Elephant Vanishes and After the Quake (including "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman", “Birthday Girl”, "The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women", "UFO in Kushiro", and "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo"), focusing on a bank employee who is enlisted by a talking frog to assist him in saving the city from destruction by a giant subterranean worm. To create a version of 3D motion capture animation within a 2D film, Földes filmed his entire screenplay as a live-action "reference" performance, following which the animators replaced the actors' heads with 3D models and then traced and animated their facial expressions. The voice cast includes Marcello Arroyo, Michael Czyz, Zag Dorison, Földes, Jesse Noah Gruman, Katharine King So, John Vamvas, Nadia Verrucci and Shoshana Wilder.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman premiered in the feature film competition at the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where it was awarded a Jury Distinction, and was later screened at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the festival's Contemporary World Cinema section.