At the Locarno Film Festival, "Two Strangers, Two Seasons" by Japanese director Sho Miyake wins the Golden Leopard

A wise prize list for the ^78th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, which took place from August 6 to 16: the jury, chaired by Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, awarded the Golden Leopard on Saturday, August 16, to Two Strangers, Two Seasons , by Japanese director Sho Miyake. Little known in France – only one of his films has been released in theaters, La Beauté du geste , in 2023, the story of a young deaf boxer – the forty-year-old filmmaker, born in 1984 in Hokkaido, is the author of seven feature films: the first ( Playback , 2012) was selected at Locarno, and the following ones at the Berlinale, the Cinéma du réel in Paris, etc. He also directed the horror series Ju-On: Origins (2020) for Netflix .

Two Seasons, Two Strangers ( Tabi to Hibi ) is like a series of two short stories, each examining the encounter between two solitary beings. A teenager and a young girl meet at the seaside; in a snowy landscape, a female screenwriter meets a man isolated in his house. The character development is undoubtedly fine, the scenario offers some interesting twists, but let's admit that these two sketches did not transport us.

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