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There Was a Father

by Jim Hoberman

February 2, 2011

Dir. Yasujiro Ozu (1942).
Yasujiro Ozu extols and subverts the wartime self-sacrifice ethos in this stoical weepie-set on the home front and focused on the nobility of a flawed patriarch.

Fri., Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., 2011

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