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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Review: Three Chance-Driven Encounters Make for Two Happy Hours
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Review: Three Chance-Driven Encounters Make for Two Happy Hours
Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up Cannes-selected Asako I & II with a slight but satisfying trio of female-driven vignettes in which fate plays a central role.
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Running time: Running time: 121 MIN.
Courtesy of Berlin Film Festival
When Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi made his return to fiction after time away in the realm of documentary, he dispensed with the idea that stories must conform to feature length. “Happy Hour,” the sprawling ensemble drama that sparked interest in him among cinephiles, ran more than five hours, and while his latest, “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” boasts a conventional enough running time of 121 minutes, the film is actually composed of three short stories, stitched together and some ....

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