Screening of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12019-11-01T17:17:42+08:00PeatixNational Museum Screening of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrencetag:peatix.com,2018:event-3342012018-01-19T20:00:00SGT2018-01-19T20:00:00SGTMerry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence / 戦場のメリークリスマス Dir:
Nagisa OshimaUK,
Japan / 1983 / 123min / English & Japanese (with English subtitles) / DCP /
Rating TBC
In
a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java, in 1942, Lieutenant-Colonel John
Lawrence (Tom Conti), a British officer, enjoys an uneasy relationship with his
jailors and fellow prisoners. He faces a new challenge with the arrival of
fellow Briton, the indomitably spirited Major Jacques Celliers (David Bowie),
who becomes an object of strange desire for the Japanese Captain Yanoi (Ryuichi
Sakamoto). What follows is not merely a battle of survival between the British
prisoners and their Japanese captors, but a battle of wills and world views.
But towards the end of the war, as Christmas approaches, both sides begin to
realise that there is more common ground between them than either could have
imagined.This film is part of the war film programme Witness to War: Memories and Screens, organised by the National Museum of Singapore as part of the Witness to War exhibition and curated by the Asian Film Archive. About Witness to War: Memories and ScreenThe
memories of World War Two have been captured, interpreted and presented
in various films – from iconic war films like Merry Christmas, Mr
Lawrence to romance films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour and historically
significant films like Momotaro, Sacred Sailors and Spirit of the
Overseas Chinese which have not been seen in Singapore in recent
history. For the first time, the National Museum, in collaboration with
the Asian Film Archive, will be presenting Witness to War: Memories and
Screens, a selection of films which document and remember the experience
of World War Two in the Pacific and its aftermath.In tracing
the historical development from the bombing of Pearl Harbour (1941) to
Hiroshima (1945), Memories and Screens will showcase films and
narratives from Singapore and Malaya, Britain, Japan, America and
Singapore’s regional neighbours, accounting for the diverse yet shared
narratives of countries and people that have participated in and
witnessed World War Two. This film programme –inspired by the exhibition
Witness to War: Remembering 1942 – invites us to reflect upon the ways
film across national borders remembers a shared history that continues
to shape our reality today.Updatestag:peatix.com,2017-12-20 12:36:492017-12-20 12:36:49The event description was updated. Diff#303208