The lives of two idealistic women — a visionary French caregiver and a Japanese theater director – briefly overlap in ‘All of a Sudden’, Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s long and challenging manifesto against the inhumanity of capitalism and the possibility of a better world.
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Art and life take turns imitating each other in a long cascade of intricately interwoven stories in Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’, part engrossing puzzle and part a repetitively revolving door.
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Low-key but spanning a symphony of disturbing themes from personal relations and wildlife conservation to the threat of war, Koji Fukada’s ‘Nagi Notes’ offers a fascinating, multi-faceted perspective on insular Japan today.
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Crime and punishment, guilt and healing are the big themes treated by writer-director Petra Volpe in the thought-provoking ‘Frank & Louis’, a measured, stylistically impeccable study of two Black prison inmates, one losing his memory through dementia.
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Ilker Catak’s drama ‘Yellow Letters’ wins the Golden Bear for Best Film amid a firestorm of unrelated political debate.
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