tokyo fiancée review
I was at my library when they put the film 'Tokyo Fiancee' on the shelf and my hand shot out and grabbed it in a blink of the eye. In Tokyo Amélie meets Rinri, a guy who helps her get reaccuainted with the country, it's language and customs that for her have been long forgotten.Entangled in the process is romance, nostalgia, excitement to learn something new and fear of losing herself in the life she's not sure is really for he - that's what Amélie goes through in this book.
But since when do dogs deserve explanations?I'm between projects right now and cannot come up with any good ideas, so I'm just going to write about that time I lived in Japan for a while and dated a Japanese guy.
All in all, 5/10 and far from 1/10.
This is my first Nothomb experience and I love her style of writing. You never doubt the complexity of her feelings nor the simplicity of her syntax, yet it captures episodes that you thought were only your own before then.
When she succumbs to the attentions of a student--the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri--the lovers find themselves swept along by an affair that is as unusual as it is tender.I think it is because the borders between fiction and non-fiction are diffuse. You never doubt the complexity of her feelings nThis is not my first Nothomb book. Considering how mature and well-behaved is Rinri one would think it would have been more correct to explain the whole situation to him and break the commitment with him, even if it would be embarrasing, like a normal adult would do and not ghost him like that.
I can't remember a lot of details, so I'll just keep it vague, which is fine cause it just needs to be 150 pages. There, to earn her living, she teaches french to Rinri (Taichi Inoue), a young Japanese french culture enthusiast, as sweet and charming as he is sometimes impenetrable
From the ryokans on Sado Island to the streets of Shinjuku, in the intimacy of a cozy room on a rainy and bathing in the hot water of onsens, Amélie and Rinri take a great delight in being together, like enamored kids exploring the pleasures of love, between complicity, fondness and sensuality. But I'm sad about it). Was this review helpful?
Her bits about Americans were scathingly funny, and told as much about her prickly personality as it did about the Americans she met.The inside cover describes this love story as completely unique and unexpected. The English translation (thanks Europa Editions!) I liked this a lot more than the last Nothomb book I read: it didn’t make me squirm-in-my-seat uncomfortable, for one thing. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Was this review helpful? 30 out of 34 found this helpful.
Tokyo Fiancée (2014) Filmkritiken - Cinafilm hat 12 Bewertungen von Tokyo Fiancée von Filmkritikern und Filmfans. When Rinri's (Taichi Inoue) well-to-do father hires Amélie to teach his son, the two quickly fall in love. The other two stories I read seemed to deal with love in an unorthodox manner (a child in love with another child) and weird office politics (love/hate).I devoured this book. I thought she had stolen the story from my journal changing only the details of my country of orgin, digs at Americans, and every one knows I would NEVER hike mountains like a norwegian god, but the rest was my love story. So at the age of 20 Amelie leaves Belgium for Japan to realize her dream. He's her only student. I can't remember a lot of details, so I'll just keep it vague, which is fine cause it just needs to be 150 pages. Anyhow, I have been following Nothomb for a while now and I admire the way she can write a slim novel--novellas, really--dramatizing a single idea. 13 out of 38 found this helpful. I watch a great deal of Chinese and Korean cinema and TV, but my specialty is Japanese. It has bits and pieces of brilliance but over all it's more a "dialogue de sourds" where Amélie, the narrator does her thing and kinda has a love affair with this very atypical Japanese young man Rinri, who seems interesting but we never get to know him, we know even less at the end of the book, even why he was interested in Amélie.
This was Tokyo Finacee for me. Was this review helpful? Even though you could not imagine a more satisfying ending, a more consice expression of emotion and never a lack of, you are always fascinated with the author. For those of you in the same position, this explains a lot.
Was this review helpful? Well written, funny, and true, very very true.Amelie Nothomb is a Belgian writer, who has a very deep connection with Japan and everything Japanese. But in the mist of discovery and fantasy, it is sometimes difficult to answer the most important : who am I, what do I want ? With each book I find her writing more and more closer to the autobiographical bone. This one was a bit disappointing, especially after rereading her previous Japanese inspired book. DVD Review: Tokyo Fiancée Tokyo Fiancée is a sweet and touching film about a young woman named Amélie (played by Pauline Etienne) discovering herself in a foreign country that she hopes will adopt her as its own.
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