Festival Froid Polar "Rashômon"

Third film in the series, "Rashômon", by Akira Kurosawa (1952), an unknown thriller by the great Japanese filmmaker. The session will be followed by an exchange with a retired judicial police officer on the subject of the collection of testimonies during a police investigation. Synopsis: A peasant comes to shelter from a torrential rain under an old dilapidated door where a woodcutter and a priest are already drying off. The latter seem to understand nothing about a case in which they have been involved in spite of themselves. A samurai was allegedly murdered and his wife raped; four witnesses to the drama, including the priest and the woodcutter, will give their versions of the facts, all contradictory...

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