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This visual masterpiece by French-Canadian director Lepage is an ambitious, exhilarating and rambling portrait of human resilience. The epic leaps continents and switches languages to blend a variety of narrative techniques, from film, farce and documentary to the novel and even Japanese puppetry. The cathartic seven-hour work splits into two performances, winding along the seven tributaries of the Ota, a Hiroshima river. Seven interrelated stories begin at a woman’s cottage in Hiroshima in 1945, where an affair impacts the next 50 years through parallel events. Visionary storyteller Le-page’s drama delicately balances order and chaos, as he sets the action in the cottage’s rooms and beyond through mirrors, video screens and stage sets, to glean an almost cinematic effect. With such grandiose ambitions, no actor in particular stands out in the harmonious ensemble. Instead, the star is the immense, breathtaking world that Lepage has created.

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