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Serious Moonlight

OZU’S I WAS BORN, BUT… IMPRESSED ME LONG AGO. I don’t know any film title that is more beautiful. I Was at Home, But… feels for me like a modest, everyday variation. In the “But” are all the doubts, questions, everything, which seem impossible to solve forever.

I have a little drawing, which was a postcard I got while writing the script. I put it on the first page of the script because it was so perfect—beautiful.

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