SIDONE IN JAPAN – Review by Nadine Whitney
The French have been an oddly ‘orientalist’ country for a long time. They led the aesthetic movement in the late 19th century where lacquer screens and ‘Japonisme’ became a fashion, art, and decorative movement based on the ‘idea’ of Japan rather than the reality after it opened to Western trade in 1858. Director Élise Girard’s Sidonie in Japan Read more