A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.
Direction
Anno's static camera turns conversation into psychological archaeology.
Acting
Fujitani's fractured repetition——birthday as mantra, as wound, as shield.
Writing
Dialogue that circles without landing. Every word hides three others.
Director
Hideaki Anno
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anno made this during his post-Evangelion depression, and it shows——the director character is transparently autobiographical, using cinema as emotional prosthesis.
The source novel by Ayako Fujitani's father——she essentially performs her own father's text about a woman losing time, directed by a man doing the same.
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