Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Damien Manivel's The Night I Swam (2017), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from March 23 - April 22, 2018 as a Special Discovery.Stirred from slumber by his father’s pre-dawn departure for work, the six-year-old protagonist of Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi’s The Night I Swam makes a game effort to go back to bed, but it’s to no avail: His mind is too awake. And while it may not seem obvious at first, this otherwise ordinary little boy (Takara Kogawa) is everything you could hope for in a movie hero. To the wordless daylong odyssey that awaits him, his response is perfect receptiveness.In rich silence, the boy helps himself to a snack and dabbles in presumably regular aesthetic pursuits—drawing, photography—before trying to budge his sleeping mom. Then, after...
- 3/20/2018
- MUBI
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