Leonie (film)
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| Directed by | Hisako Matsui |
| Produced by | Patrick Aiello (executive) Ashok Amritraj Manu Gargi Yuuki Itoh |
| Written by | Hisako Matsui |
| Starring |
Emily Mortimer Shido Nakamura |
| Music by | Jan A.P. Kaczmarek |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Nagata |
| Edited by | Barbara Tulliver, Craig Hayes, Sabine Hoffman |
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Hyde Park Entertainment
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| Distributed by | Vertigo Films |
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| Country | Japan |
| Language | English Japanese |
Leonie (Japanese: レオニー Hepburn: Reonī?) is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Hisako Matsui and starring Emily Mortimer and Shido Nakamura. The film is based on the life of Léonie Gilmour, the American lover and editorial assistant of Japanese writer Yone Noguchi and mother of sculptor Isamu Noguchi and dancer Ailes Gilmour.
Production started in April 2009 and the film was released in Japan on November 20, 2010. An extensively reedited version of the film began a limited theatrical run in the United States on March 22, 2013 and was released on DVD on May 14, 2013.
The film opens on a beach. A window overlooks the beach. In a dark room, Isamu Noguchi, grown old, is chipping away at a large stone with a hammer and chisel. "Mother, I want you to tell the story." The film periodically returns to this scene of Isamu at work.
Bryn Mawr 1892. After a class in which she argues with a professor about the importance of artist Artemisia Gentileschi, Leonie (Emily Mortimer) befriends Catherine Burnell (Christina Hendricks). Later, they meet Umeko Tsuda (Mieko Harada), a graduate student. In Tsuda’s room, Leonie gazes at a print of Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
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