(Please note that in the 1001 Book, this film is referred to as The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums.) Sometimes you watch a two-and-a-half hour film and the time flies by, but then there are films like director Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), which seem to drag on forever. An obvious proponent of extremely long, static takes, Mizoguchi was a reflective storyteller who had a habit of making depressing...
