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Bye Bye Love
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$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
Isao Fujisawa
Japan
1974
1h 25m
About
(Isao Fujisawa, 1974, Japan, 85 min, in Japanese with English subtitles)
Lost and nihilistic drifter Utamaro chances upon Giko, a female- presenting shoplifter who immediately catches his eye. One thing leads to another: the couple soon find themselves on the lam for murder. This provides for a delightful pretext to explore notions of societal malaise, free love and gender fluidity in a rapidly evolving 1970s Japan, as both Utamaro and Giko begin to know each other on the road by way of of a variety of surrealistic, psychedelic and frank sexual encounters.
“A progressive, empathic perspective on non-binary life… Anticipates the transgressive New Queer Cinema movies of Gregg Araki and Gus Van Sant…” – Luke Goodsell, Metrograph
“somewhere between the psychosexual, surrealistic dream and the getaway crime movie” – Panos Kotzathanasis, Asian Movie Pulse
“…thoroughly engaging even as it operates on its own cockeyed logic… A fascinating cinematic artifact, “Bye Bye Love” is a reissue worth discovering.” – Gary M. Kramer, Gay City News
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. All doors in Northwest Film Forum are non-motorized, and may require staff assistance to open. Our upstairs workshop room is not wheelchair accessible.
The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
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