Yen and Ai-lee
Powerful performances from Taiwanese actors Kimi Hsia and Yang Kue-mei anchor Taiwanese filmmaker Tom Lin Shu-yu’s beautifully filmed black-and-white family drama ‘Yen and Ai-lee’.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Oct 4, 2024 | Busan 2024, Festivals |
Powerful performances from Taiwanese actors Kimi Hsia and Yang Kue-mei anchor Taiwanese filmmaker Tom Lin Shu-yu’s beautifully filmed black-and-white family drama ‘Yen and Ai-lee’.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Oct 3, 2024 | Busan 2024, Festivals |
Bowing in Busan’s New Currents competition, Japanese filmmaker Go Furukawa’s feature-length debut, ‘Kaneko’s Commissary’, offers a delicate, humane and relentlessly life-affirming tale about an ex-con.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Oct 2, 2024 | Festivals, Busan 2024 |
Park Chan-wook produces and pens Kim Sang-man’s ‘Uprising’, a visually and politically-stirring period-drama-meets-action-thriller set during the Japanese invasion of Korea at the end of the 16th century.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Sep 25, 2024 | Cine Verdict, Festivals, San Sebastian 2024 |
Usando los impactantes paisajes del lugar, su compleja historia e intrigante aislamiento, el director José Luis Torres Leiva lentamente desenreda las emociones largamente reprimidas de una citadina angustiada a través de inspiradores encuentros con un grupo de locales en Cuando las nubes cubren las sombras de José Luis Torres Leiva.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Sep 2, 2024 | Venice 2024, Featured, Festivals |
A retired military sniper tries to atone for his murderous past in ‘Phantosmia’, Philippine auteur Lav Diaz’s poetic, reflective, modest yet visually captivating study of guilt and redemption.
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