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Arakimentari (2005)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:6
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6/10
Theatrical Release:Jan 21, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: The documentary feature ARAKIMENTARI explores the work of popular and controversial Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki in a style designed to match Araki's own. Araki's fame and the debate... The documentary feature ARAKIMENTARI explores the work of popular and controversial Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki in a style designed to match Araki's own. Araki's fame and the debate around his photography derive mostly from his work with nudes, which blur the lines normally established between art, erotica, and pornography. The photographs have often been credited with reversing the Japanese ban on the visual representation of pubic hair, and Araki has been seen by his supporters as one of the artistic champions of free speech and social criticism in Japan. Some of Araki's celebrity fans--Bjork, Takeshi Kitano, Richard Kern and others--are interviewed to explain the appeal and importance of his photography. Liberally peppered with images of the photography and presented in a manner designed to imitate the combination of titillation and estrangement Araki's work engenders, ARAKIMENTARI goes beyond the biographical documentary to the realm of artistic portrait. [More]
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Klose brilliantly captures Araki's spirit, both through his personality and his work.
If Araki is a genius, you get the sense that somewhat might ought to explain why.
Uncritical as the movie is, it's a pity no one's hip to the possibility that he's endlessly repeating his greatest work of the 1980s.
Viewers are left to draw their own conclusions, which inevitably will be colored by individual reactions to unabashed frontal nudity.
Offers a fast, efficient and richly satisfying look at an iconoclastic artist and his groundbreaking work.
More of a sketch than a fully developed portrait, Arakimentari is an up-close and generally impersonal introduction to the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.
Filmmaker Travis Klose does his best to showcase Araki, a man who he obviously admires, in the best light possible and he succeeds.
Araki's pictures can be stunningly beautiful, sensuously arousing, frighteningly shocking or downright weird. Arakimentari is like that too.
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