Packet 8: Tossup 21

Two answers required. In a film by a director from one of these two countries set in the other, a PI discovers that an English diplomat’s wife is having an affair with a chimpanzee. (-5[1])In 2024, (15[1])a director from (15[1])one of these two (15[1])countries made a gender-swapped remake of his film Serpent’s Path in the (15[1])other. (15[1])In a 2019 (15[1])film by a director from one of these two countries set in the other, the wife of Ethan Hawke’s character disputes her actress mother’s memoir The Truth. These two countries co-produced (15[1])the notoriously erotic film (*) In the Realm of the Senses. (10[1]-5[1])The title of a 1960 film about student activists in one of these two (10[1])countries was inspired by a 1956 documentary from the other, Night and Fog. (10[1])A nonlinear (-5[1])1959 film about these two countries (10[2])is about an actress and architect known simply as “Her” and “Him.” For 10 points, name these two countries central to Hiroshima mon amour. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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