Tetsuichiro Tsuta's 'Black Ox' rewards patience with daring cinema
In an era of diminishing attention spans, Tetsuichiro Tsuta isn’t afraid to see how far he can push an audience. At one point during the 41-year-old director’s new film, “Black Ox,” viewers are left staring at a white screen for over a minute — and the effect is improbably thrilling. In another sequence, the camera zooms in on a face so slowly, I managed to doze off and wake up again before it had finished.
It would normally be unwise to mention during an interview that you’d fallen asleep during the director’s movie, but Tsuta laughs it off.
“That’s totally fine,” he says, speaking at the Tokyo office of the film’s distributor.
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