Premiering tomorrow at Cannes Film Festival is the latest work from Naomi Kawase (Suzaku, The Mourning Forest), Still the Water. Competing for the Palme d’Or, the film takes place during the full-moon night of traditional dances set in August. Set on the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, the drama centers on a 14-year-old boy who finds a dead body floating in the sea. The young man enlists the help of his girlfriend to solve the mystery and the pair, of course, bond.
The first trailer has landed today, which doesn’t have subtitles but evokes beautiful imagery. Kawase also opened up recently about the film, saying, The themes such as life and death, symbiosis between humans and nature, the memories of a place, the cycle of life that comes and goes one generation aſter another; these are present in my previous films as well as in this film. However, speaking of this film particularly, it was different in the sense that I found myself having almost no desire to force or control over something during the production.” Check out the trailer below, as well as two posters.
Still the Water premieres on May 20th at Cannes Film Festival.