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Title: Feel-good fantasy for spring
Post by: LostInTime on March 16, 2007, 08:29:16 AM
Post by: LostInTime on March 16, 2007, 08:29:16 AM
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t is also reminiscent of her 1987 novel "Kitchen," which was filmed by Yoshi-mitsu Morita in 1989. In both films the heroine is a young woman left alone after a death -- of a beloved grandmother in "Kitchen," of a mother in "Argentine Baba." And in both she finds spiritual refuge in the kitchen -- cooking in the earlier book, baking bread in the latter, as well as support from an elder, wise figure belonging to a socially marginalized group -- a transsexual in "Kitchen," an eccentric cat lady in "Argentine Baba."
t is also reminiscent of her 1987 novel "Kitchen," which was filmed by Yoshi-mitsu Morita in 1989. In both films the heroine is a young woman left alone after a death -- of a beloved grandmother in "Kitchen," of a mother in "Argentine Baba." And in both she finds spiritual refuge in the kitchen -- cooking in the earlier book, baking bread in the latter, as well as support from an elder, wise figure belonging to a socially marginalized group -- a transsexual in "Kitchen," an eccentric cat lady in "Argentine Baba."