Lupe Under the Sun

Yeah... What can I say about this film? Very slow, and possibly never really delivers as much as you think it will. Each shot was really well composed -- almost like a photograph, and sometimes the dialogue was so slow and stilted it reminded me of Ozu. I liked the opening scenes with him drinking a beer beneath the cherry blossoms, and I felt like there was a bigger story to tell about this kind of guy, living his life under harsh conditions, but I felt like the film itself fell short in telling us anything real.

I watched another film recently called Schultze Gets the Blues which I thought did something similar to this film, but a lot better. 6/10