FILM FORUM CORONADO: “Floating Weeds”

Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival, presents FILM FORUM CORONADO, taking place the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6 pm in the library’s Winn Room. Film expert Ralph DeLauro provides a brief introduction to each film and leads a discussion afterwards, often including pointers about how lighting or camera angles contribute to a scene’s mood or propel the story.

September 7: Floating Weeds (1959, 118 min) Japanese with English subtitles

A Technicolor masterwork of profound humanity, filled with striking compositions, buoyant humor and sublime poetry. Yasujiro Ozu creates a  dreamy, quietly simmering atmosphere of emotional tension in his tale of the master  of a traveling troupe of actors who reunites with an old flame and their son, enraging his current mistress.