Fantasia XXIV Review: MILOCRORZE – A LOVE STORY, A Romantic, Fantastical Odyssey Of Oddities That Still Holds Up
The last film writer and director Yoshimasa Ishibashi ever directed made its return to Fantasia Festival this year for the first time in nine years. Starring Takayuki Yamada, Maiko, Anna Ishibashi, and Seijun Suzuki in one of his final screen performances, we get Milocrorze – A Love Story, a movie that brims with nebulous eccentricity in its anthological, episodic and puckish tale of love, heartbreak, vengeance and emancipation. Aside from the use of color, costumes and set design, the most discernible quality about the film are some of the names of our initial characters and age perception. A young child actor takes on the role of Ovreneli Vreneligare who lives with a cat named Verandola Gorgonzola, and falls in love with a beautiful woman named Milocrorze (Maiko) after meeting in a park. The two seemingly fall in love and start their life together until trouble in paradise looms, and Ovreneli […]
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