Tag: World
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The Measure of a Man – Review
Imagine this: you’re the security guard at a supermarket, tasked to unblinkingly stare at a CCTV monitor. You watch for what feels like hours, waiting for something to happen, as every instant that threatens to tip the tedium into mild interest revealing itself to be no more than a red herring. In Stéphane Brizé’s The Measure… Read More >
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Arabian Nights trilogy – Review
Miguel Gomes’ ambitious six hour-plus satirical satire of history, modern-day politics and surrealism is certainly something to talk about. Except that’s all it does: talk. Kicking off the trilogy, which was filmed back-to-back on location, is Volume 1 – The Restless One. We’re introduced to director Miguel Gomes attempting to barter his way out of… Read More >
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Arabian Nights – Trailer
Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic. Read More >
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Dheepan – Short trailer
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris. Read More >
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Slack Bay – Trailer
Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Read More >
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Rocco and His Brothers – Review
Although some of its firework-like histrionics can seem a tad dated today, Rocco and His Brothers is a luminous reminder of the vitality of life. Read More >
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Dheepan – Trailer
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris. Read More >
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Rams – Review
Iceland is a deep well for art. Music and cinema has enjoyed growing naturally there, happily removed from (most) of the pulls of regular Western sensibilities, a country whose expansive national imagination comes from an open heart and a sturdy soul. Read More >
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Dheepan – Review
The graceful fade-to-blacks that punctuate Dheepan, Jacques Audiard’s latest ball-busting, gritty drama, hint at the shadowy underside to its already blackened landscape. Whatever form the darkness takes next is typically a grim mockery of something innocent; light-up bunny ears (2 euro!) dissolve into focus from the murk, even though the scene just before has depicted… Read More >
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The Club – Review
Pablo Larraín has rather made a name for himself. He hasn’t even hit his forties yet, and the Chilean filmmaker has already made four features which resonated with audiences globally, their tales of powers large and small and the struggle to overcome them, felt by anyone in any country. His latest, The Club, is smaller… Read More >
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