Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is no less insightful into the mercurial vicissitudes of the human condition, but it still finds space for Murakami the fabulist.

There are sequences of efficient dialogue that — if you close your eyes — unspool the kind of low-key, elliptical tension that Murakami seems to be able to pull off in his sleep. But ... the aggressively odd visuals ruin the illusion.

A very odd story, but the conversations... are absolutely fascinating.

More than a canonical literary adaptation, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman captures something far more elusive: Murakami's emotional atmosphere. [Full review in Spanish]