A reflection on love, sacrifice, and the creative spirit, this year’s Oscar nominee for best documentary, Cutie and the Boxer, is a candid New York story exploring the 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife, Noriko. As a rowdy, confrontational young artist in Tokyo, Ushio seemed destined for fame, but
A reflection on love, sacrifice, and the creative spirit, this year’s Oscar nominee for best documentary, Cutie and the Boxer, is a candid New York story exploring the 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife, Noriko. As a rowdy, confrontational young artist in Tokyo, Ushio seemed destined for fame, but met with little commercial success after he moved to New York City in 1969, seeking international recognition. When Noriko moved to New York to study art, she fell in love with Ushio. This is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice, disappointment and aging, against a background of lives dedicated to art.
Zachary Heinzerling, USA, 2013, color, DCP, 82′
Language: English, Japanese
www.cutieandtheboxer.com
Organised by Kino Šiška
