Sansho the Bailiff

"If you have never witnessed the visual equivalent of perfect pitch, or understood how a single tracking shot can feel like a declaration of faith, here is your chance."--ANTHONY LANE, NEW YORKER One of Mizoguchi's most beautifully photographed films, Sansho the Bailiff is the story of an 11th-century family torn apart--the father exiled by a feudal lord, the mother sold into prostitution, the two children into slavery on a farm. After years of hard labor the grown children plot their escape and the family’s reunion. (123 mins., 35mm)