After some misunderstanding, Sakaguchi is hired to make a tourist guide video on Tobako (a fictitious name for Kawaguchi) in the outskirts of Tokyo. This element in the script sparks off a fanciful wandering strewn with unexpected meetings. First with Kitagawa, thanks to whom Sakaguchi landed the job. Then with a seamstress, and then with Yoshino, with whom a half-hearted romance emerges. Thus the narrative unfolds, in halts and swerves, espousing unexpected meetings, and offering the strolling character an opportunity for displacements from one place to the next. The deserted town has come to a standstill – the shooting took place during the lockdown – and this acts as a metaphor for the idleness of the characters. Garden Sandbox is light and nimble, whereas its main character hasa limp. Her demeanour and her stiff body exude a peculiar quality, somewhat comically at odds with the setting. Apathetically playing along, the young woman gleans from each character some pieces of information about the town and, then, touch by touch she delineates its picture: ultimately, the place comes acrossas a post-industrial locale whose foundries are now obsolete. Sakaguchi’s very meanderings lead her to a rich family’s house for a sewing lesson. In this pivotal scene, the lady of the house invites her to don an upper-class wedding dress. Through a gesture both radical and powerful, which itself informs the dynamic of the film as a whole, a gleeful snip of the scissors transforms the item of clothing into the ultimate chic of haute-couture design. What weaves together this truant escape whose motifs and fabric seem inspired by Jacques Rozier’s films, a crumbling industrial heritage and the transforming of a traditional wedding dress? With Garden Sandbox, whose title is a reference to the type of sand used in the foundries, joyfully and playfully, Yukinori Kurokawa interrogates the concepts of mutation and (re)use as sources of boundless possibilities. (Claire Lasolle)
张译,李晨,魏晨,曹炳琨,王骁,张子贤,杨新鸣,陈创,黄璐,艾丽娅,张新成,高叶,张本煜,王雨甜,王双宝,张祎曈,冯兵,董向荣,李妍锡,徐冬冬,马千壹,陈昊,张磊,宁晓志,刘頔,郜玄铭,黄婷,盛梓航,韩静 ,赖维佳
桑德拉·惠勒,斯万·阿劳德,米洛·马查多·格拉纳,安托万·赖纳茨,塞缪尔·泰斯,珍妮·贝丝,莎迪娅·本太耶布,卡米莉·拉瑟福德,Anne Rotger,索菲亚·菲力瑞斯,Julien Comte,Pierre-François Garel,Savannah Rol,伊利斯·卡德里,Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse,瓦吉·穆阿瓦德,萨沙·沃尔夫,阿图·阿拉里
缇雅娜·泰勒,艾伦·金斯利·阿德托拉,艾文·考特尼,乔赛亚·克罗斯 ,威廉·卡特列特,特丽·阿布尼,德丽莎·雷诺兹,阿梅利亚·沃克曼,安德莱内·列诺斯,杰米尔·威廉姆斯,马克·格斯纳,塔拉·帕切科,德西·多摩,多恩·迪皮塔,艾娃·艾森松,约翰尼·塞雷