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'Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy' ('Guzen to sozo'): Film Review | Berlin 2021

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Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi won wide acclaim and festival prizes with his 2015 breakthrough feature, the bittersweet ensemble drama Happy Hour.

But the nuanced, novelistic eye behind that delicately observed five-hour epic seemed to desert Hamaguchi on his 2018 anti-romance Asako I & II, which premiered to lukewarm reviews in Cannes.

Happily, Hamaguchi seems to have got his mojo back with Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, a Tokyo-set triptych of contemporary chamber dramas.

Each of the three plots is shaped by chance and coincidence, doubles and echoes. Featuring a mostly female headline cast and a talk-heavy script, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is full of understated, melancholy poetry.

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