Curious Films Japanese cult tale ‘Norwegian Wood’ to premiere at Sydney Film Festival tonight

June 16 2011, 8:53 am | BY Lynchy | 3 Comments

Curious presents the Australian premiere of ‘Norwegian Wood’ at the Sydney Film Festival tonight Thursday 16th June at 6:15pm, and again tomorrow Friday 17th June at 1:50pm at the State Theatre.

‘Norwegian Wood’ is an unsettling story about teenage angst, death, loss and desire, set in Tokyo in the 1960s and directed by Tran Anh Hung (Cyclo, The Scent of Green Papaya).

Securing the Australia/NZ distribution rights to the film was a huge coup for Curious, which recently won a Canal Plus Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for its short film ‘Blue’, directed by Stephen Kang.

“To me, Norwegian Wood is a story about the unfilled desire of youth, radical protests, the choice of life or death, the process of growing up… The original novel has a chaos of violence and elegance, and a variety of themes that lend themselves to a film adaptation,” says Hung.

According to The Guardian: “This movie is gorgeously photographed by Ping Bin Lee, and has a plangent, keening orchestral score by Jonny Greenwood. It rewards attention with a very sensual experience…. Norwegian Wood ignites its own fierce, moth-attracting flame.”

‘Norwegian Wood’ is one of 12 films selected for Official Competition at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, and one of three films distributed by Curious to screen at this year’s Festival. Each film in the Official Competition is selected on the basis that they demonstrate ’emotional power and resonance; are audacious, cutting-edge, courageous; and go beyond the usual treatment of the subject matter’.

To book your tickets to Sydney Film Festival, click here: http://sff.org.au/public/schedule/