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Bye Bye Love
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Sun 27 Oct · 14:30
Until the 2018 discovery of a film negative in a warehouse, Bye Bye Love was long considered lost: a new print gives audiences a rare chance to revisit this radical work from 1974.
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Part of Queer East

Following two young people, Utamaro and Giko, on a doomed summer road trip through Japan, Isao Fujisawa’s poetic, surreal work reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love.

The film is stylistically influenced by the French New Wave and American New Cinema, notably Jean-Luc Godard and Arthur Penn. Yet the main character’s name – Utamaro – also suggests a rethinking of Japanese artistic traditions, especially male perspectives on feminine beauty. Here, romantic love transcends gender, sexuality, and even the body; a queer challenge to conventional understandings of relationships that adds to the political charge of this rediscovered classic.

Screening as part of the Queer East touring Film Festival.

Details

Original language title
バイバイ・ラブ
Duration
1hr 25mins
Director
Isao Fujisawa
Featuring
Ren Tamura • Miyabi Ichijô • Yûzô Morita
Year
1964
Country of origin
Japan
Language
Japanese with English Subtitles
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Part of Queer East

Established in response to the systemic lack of Asian LGBTQ+ representation on the big screen, Queer East returns for its fourth edition, touring in venues across the UK.
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