MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (Kon, 2001): Transitions between shots, scenes and layers of time, reality and perception

Right from the beginning we are introduced to a movie within a movie and subjective flashbacks through parallel editing based on visual similarities. But MILLENNIUM ACTRESS offers much more complicated narrative entanglements and transitions between levels of reality which are certainly worth studying.

Gleich zu Beginn verbindet MILLENNIUM ACTRESS die innerfilmische Realität mit einem Film im Film und subjektiven Rückblenden mit Hilfe von Parallelschnitten, die auf visuellen Assoziationen beruhen. Doch Satoshi Kons Anime hat noch viel kompliziertere Verschränkungen und Übergänge zwischen den Realitätsebenen zu bieten, die zu studieren es sich lohnt. 

During an interview with a once famous actress we see the interviewers within the actress' flashback that is furthermore influenced by scenes from one of the actress' early films

The interviewers even enter the frame - separated by their modern day clothing and their skin color as opposed to the desaturated memory.