AFTER THE APOCALYPSE December 1-7, 2004
Writer-director Yasuaki Nakajima creates an eerily depopulated post-holocaust world in which survivors, having lost both memory and speech, roam the devastating urban landscape reinventing human relationship. The film's greenish-black tint looks like an old print of Rashomon, while an elegant, industrial score by Hiro Ota intensifies both the survivors' fear of each other and their relief when anyone manage to understood. Astonishingly engrossing, After the Apocalypse recalls all too precisely those nightmares in which you open your mouth to scream and can't make a sound.