A Scene At The Sea

Early, 1991 film, from a director whose two films we have before seen and found absolutely stunning; Takeshi Kitano. This film is obviously an early work; and doesn't really get off the first few stages of its journey; not that it's a bad film.
We know this is a Kitano film because of the slowness, the fresh silences. The fact that our lead is deaf certainly helps this. Their is a massive lack of dialogue in this film; we know this is Kitano due to this, and we see how he has developed from there, into using sounds and diagetic sound more than the direct music here.
The music here isn't the films finest point. It has aged rather badly, sounding a bit like a computer game.
The surfing theme is sweet, as of course is the traditional Kitano kind of quiet pathos, a naiveness, that runs through the themes. Kitano knows he is doing this, but does some interesting caputring of this feeling, more than anything else.
Also, we have the colour schemes Kitano develops so well. Shot in an early morning light, the pale yellows. This isn't taken on to a particularly high level, but it is one of the features of the film that make it, all round, a mild pleasure to watch.