{"id":52307,"date":"2026-05-14T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52307"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:05:35","slug":"review-cannes-2026-nagi-notes-movie-review-koji-fukada-ponders-the-meaning-of-art-in-wartime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52307","title":{"rendered":"Review | Cannes 2026: Nagi Notes movie review \u2013 Koji Fukada ponders the meaning of art in wartime"},"content":{"rendered":"


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4\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

With a story driven by beautifully restrained emotions and conversations steeped in philosophical queries about the meaning and significance of art, the Franco-Japanese co-production Nagi Notes<\/em> combines the best of the two cinematic worlds it was born out of.<\/p>\n

Unfolding across 10 days in a small Japanese town, the latest film from writer-director Koji Fukada (Love on Trial<\/em><\/span>) demands a certain amount of attention and reflection from its viewers. But it is a task made all the easier by the nuanced performances of Fukada\u2019s A-list cast and Hidetoshi Shinomiya\u2019s beautiful camerawork.<\/div>\n

Playing in the Cannes Film Festival\u2019s main competition, Nagi Notes<\/em> is based on Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata\u2019s Tokyo Notes<\/em>, a play revolving around 20 characters sitting in a museum hall talking about their lives while a devastating war rages in faraway Europe.<\/p>\n

In Fukada\u2019s very loose adaptation of the 1994 play \u2013 which retains only two of the original characters and removes the spatial confines in Hirata\u2019s Beckett-ish narrative \u2013 war and its imitations are also omnipresent.<\/p>\n

On television, they see the devastation in Ukraine; up close, they contend with military trucks rumbling past their homes and the constant boom of regular drills taking place at a nearby training camp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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