A Traveller’s Needs
Hong Sang-soo’s third collaboration with Isabelle Huppert is the weakest outing for both the director and actor so far.
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Posted by Clarence Tsui | Feb 19, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Festivals |
Hong Sang-soo’s third collaboration with Isabelle Huppert is the weakest outing for both the director and actor so far.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Pingyao 2023 |
Chinese filmmaker Li Binbin’s directorial debut, ‘The Night Rain South Township’, won a special mention at Pingyao with an enigmatic story of a young man’s rediscovery of his cultural roots in a foggy town in China’s southwest hinterlands.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Pingyao 2023 |
Awarded by both the main and youth juries at Pingyao, ‘Dance Still’ is directing duo Qin Muqiu and Zhan Hanqi’s triumph of a slacker comedy, trading in jet-black absurdist humour aimed at China’s bewildered millennials.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Oscar shortlist, Pingyao 2023, Toronto 2023, VENICE 2023 |
In ‘City of Wind’, Mongolia’s Academy Award hopeful which has already collected prizes at Venice and Pingyao, director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir offers a charmingly intimate look at a gifted young city-dwelling shaman.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Sep 6, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023 |
Kyoshi Sugita’s “Following the Sound” ticks all the boxes for nipponophiles seeking some extremely austere storytelling and swathes of slow-moving, soothing imagery set in a small, serene town in Japan.
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