Clarence Tsui - The Film Verdict

How to Save A Dead Friend

Posted by Clarence Tsui | May 22, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Featured, Festivals |

Rebellious Russian filmmaker Marusya Syroechkovskaya’s directorial debut offers dynamic imagery and damning commentary about her stifled generation.

EO

Posted by Clarence Tsui | May 19, 2022 | Cannes, Cannes 2022, Cannes Marché du Film, Festivals, International Oscars 2024 |

Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski’s mix of beauty and bombast makes a donkey of a promising premise of making audiences observe a chaotic, cruel world through a braying animal’s eyes.

Harkis

Posted by Clarence Tsui | May 19, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Festivals |

A fiery and timely reflection about a dark episode in French history at the risk of being written out of the books with the normalisation of far-right politics in the country.

The Novelist’s Film

Posted by Clarence Tsui | Feb 16, 2022 | Berlin, Festivals, Spotlight |

Hong Sang-soo’s 27th feature, and his third in competition in Berlin in as many years, offers his trademark acerbic humor, anchored by veteran Korean actress Lee Hye-young’s caustic turn as an embittered writer.

My Small Land

Posted by Clarence Tsui | Feb 13, 2022 | Berlin, Festivals |

Japanese filmmaker Emma Kawawada takes the humanist cue from her mentor, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and adapt it to her warm and engaging directorial debut, in which a Kurdish-born Japanese teenager struggles to keep her life and dreams afloat when the authorities threaten to deport her family from the country.

Author: Clarence Tsui

How to Save A Dead Friend

EO

Harkis

The Novelist’s Film

My Small Land