Queer East Presents: Bye Bye Love (50th Anniversary)
October 10 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free – £12
Until the 2018 discovery of a film negative in a warehouse, Bye Bye Love was long considered lost: a new print gives audiences a rare chance to revisit this radical work from 1974. Following two young people, Utamaro and Giko, on a doomed summer road trip through Japan, Isao Fujisawa’s poetic, surreal work reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love. The film is stylistically influenced by the French New Wave and American New Cinema, notably Jean-Luc Godard and Arthur Penn. Yet the main character’s name – Utamaro – also suggests a rethinking of Japanese artistic traditions, especially male perspectives on feminine beauty. Here, romantic love transcends gender, sexuality, and even the body; a queer challenge to conventional understandings of relationships that adds to the political charge of this rediscovered classic.
With a recorded message from director Isao Fujisawa and special introduction by Xuanlin Tham.
Content notes: Depiction of physical violence, police, sex, gun violence, death, nudity, cigarette use, small amounts of blood, cut.
Curated by Yi Wang.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, £8, £10, or £12. To book, click here or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.
Accessibility
This programme has:
- English, Japanese audio with English language descriptive subtitles
- English-BSL interpretation for the introduction
- Live Captioning for the introduction
This screening is 85 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+.
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Image Credit: Bye Bye Love, Dir. Isao Fujisawa, 1974