Between Revolutions
Vlad Petri’s visually captivating yet structurally slippery found-footage film reflects on the suppression faced by young, idealistic Romanian and Iranian women under self-avowed “revolutionary” regimes.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Feb 19, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals |
Vlad Petri’s visually captivating yet structurally slippery found-footage film reflects on the suppression faced by young, idealistic Romanian and Iranian women under self-avowed “revolutionary” regimes.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Sundance, Sundance 2023 |
Danish documentary filmmaker Lin Alluna’s feature-length debut veers away from the political to reveal the internal conflicts tearing at the Greenland-born, Denmark-educated and Canada-based Inuit civil rights activist Aaju Peter.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Dec 7, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Tribeca, Valladolid |
Oscars voters have always had a soft spot for movies about movies – and Last Film Show should very...
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Sep 8, 2022 | Festivals, Spotlight, VENICE 2022 |
Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s reinvention of the western is a cutting political allegory, a taut revenge tale and a visual extravaganza rolled into one.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Sep 5, 2022 | Festivals, VENICE 2022 |
Philippine auteur Lav Diaz offers a damning and doomed critique of the violent state of his country through the on-screen physical and psychological disintegration of a policeman weighed down by the guilt of his officially-sanctioned murderous past in ‘When the Waves Are Gone’.
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