{"id":11610,"date":"2016-12-16T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T02:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:51:11","slug":"kumiko-the-treasure-hunter-2014-zellners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11610","title":{"rendered":"Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014, Zellners)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I am like a Spanish Conquistador. Recently, I’ve learned of untold riches hidden deep in the Americas.”<\/p>\n

A strange idea, obsessing over the “this is a true story” opening titles of Fargo<\/a><\/em>, putting a degraded VHS tape of that movie into the hands of an already disconnected-from-reality Japanese woman whose hobby is treasure hunting, and setting her loose in Minnesota. However this movie, which opens with those same Fargo<\/em> titles, is at least loosely based on a true story of a Japanese woman found dead outside Fargo.<\/p>\n

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Judging from the blu-ray alternate scenes, it seems the Zellners are inclined towards absurd comedy but dialed it down for the feature, so we’re left with a character study of a nearly mute, mostly unsympathetic (she rips off everyone she comes across) woman with a singleminded need to find something that we know doesn’t exist: the briefcase of money a wounded Steve Buscemi buried in the snow on a roadside twenty years earlier. Rinko Kikuchi (Pacific Rim<\/a><\/em>, Norwegian Wood<\/em>) is engrossing to watch, and it’s fun to see the Minnesotans vainly try to culturally connect with Kumiko (asking at a Chinese restaurant if anyone can translate Japanese, giving her a copy of Shogun<\/em>, offering her a ride to the Mall of America). I appreciated the concept and performances but wasn’t feeling it overall.<\/p>\n

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Bedtime for Bunzo:<\/em>
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This pet store had an owl, a parrot and a monkey, and the combination of their sounds stunned my two birds into silence:<\/em>
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\nBlack Something<\/em> (2016, Zellner Bros.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Found on Filmstruck: the directors’ new homage to Malle’s Black Moon<\/a><\/em>. A short burst of weirdness, and the first thing I tried to watch on that site, so I can’t tell if the barking dogs sound was out-of-sync on purpose or if this is gonna be a problem. A girl picks flower petals, centipedes wriggle, plants drip with goo, and frilly collar-wearing dogs attack a bear.<\/p>\n

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