#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 11: mountains travelled on #InternationalMountainDay
In #KeisukeKinoshita's highly stylised 楢山節考 [The Ballad of Narayama] (1958), a starving community has come to the agreement that the elders approaching the age of seventy are to be carried up the mountain Narayama to die. The day prior to the mountain's festival, sixty-nine year old Orin prepares to leave, carried by her son Tatsuhei ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/you-shan-jie-kao-1958