Ibuku
Christine Hakim’s bravura performance anchors ‘Ibuku’, an absorbingly textured study of a woman’s anguished attempts to make amends for failing her condemned daughter.
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Tag: 80MC
Long Long Night
Youm Kyu-bock lights up Busan’s top-tier competition with a crowd-pleasing, tear-jerking, excellently animated road movie about two animals’ search for a better place to live.
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Shape of Momo
Indian filmmaker Tribeny Rai makes back-to-back festival bows at Busan and San Sebastian with ‘Shape of Momo’, a thoughtful family drama about an affluent, cosmopolitan woman’s rebellion against the gender- and class-based schisms in her picturesque Himalayan hometown.
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Desert of Namibia
Yuumi Kawai delivers a storm of a performance as a young bipolar woman struggling with Japan’s unspoken social norms in “Desert of Namibia”, Japanese filmmaker Yoko Yamanaka’s stunning sophomore effort.
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