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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302041248 Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 6302041244 Label: New Yorker Video Manufacturer: New Yorker Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Yorker Video Release Date: November 11, 1998 Running Time: 90 minutes Sales Rank: 35406 Studio: New Yorker Video Theatrical Release Date: 1989-07
Rating: - Amazing Lyrical!
My first introduction to "Summer Vacation 1999" was in 1991, I was a newly living in Madison, Wisconsin. Surrounded by crystal blue lakes, that reflected the summers heat. I was also, startlingly alone, watching the beauty of the land and people around me.
I happened upon Summer Vacation and was fully amazed by the lyricism of loneliness in the film. The story provides an almost mystical view of four boys away at a Japanese school. They are all haunted to a degree by the suicide death of one of their friends. These repressed emotions are brought to a head by the arrival of a new student ... Read More
Rating: - Boarding school lonliness and despair
A well-acted Japanese film, Summer 1999 approaches a strange subject using strange actors: A foursome of schoolboys, from ages 11 or so to 16 or so are left alone for the mid-year holiday, lamenting over their repressed love for each other and the suicide death of one of the younger players. This film is remarkable in that, at least in the case of the older, androgynous teens, boys are being played by girls. The plot is rather clear, but muddled in its message: the new, younger schoolboy comes to the school, and bears an identical resem- blance to the boy who committed suicide. The rest of ... Read More
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