★☆☆☆☆ Director Quan’an Wang brings his overly-sprawling epic White Deer Plain (2011) – adapted from the controversial novel by Zhongshi Chen – to this year’s Berlinale as one of the Golden Bear contenders. Set during the final years of Imperial China, it traces the stories of two ruling […]
★★★★☆ Tonally a million miles away from the dark subject matter of most of this year’s Berlinale lineup, Naoko Ogigami’s Rent-a-Cat (Rentaneko, 2011) is a delightfully twee story of self discovery which successfully blends elements of Amélie (2001) with the sweet sentiment of Studio Ghibli.Sayoko is a young […]
★★☆☆☆ Easily one of the strangest entries in the running for the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, playful Indonesian director Edwin’s Postcards from the Zoo (Kebun Binatang, 2011) is a mawkish, frequently irksome (quirksome?) trinket of a movie that – frustratingly – shows fleeting moments […]
