Film Review: ‘Charulata’
★★★★☆ Place is an inherent part of cinema, it’s the sand beneath the feet of form and breathes around content whilst acting within the...
★★★☆☆ ‘Second time’s a charm’ is not the feeling that hits home when reflecting upon the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, the opening film of...
The Un Certain Regard section was where the debut feature, A Girl at My Door (2014) from South Korean director July Jung unspooled to...
★☆☆☆☆ The way Bryn Higgins’ sophomore feature, Electricity (2014), sees itself is perhaps an integral part of its ultimate failure. It considers itself as...
★★★★☆ Place is an inherent part of cinema, it’s the sand beneath the feet of form and breathes around content whilst acting within the...
★★★★☆ In his short story The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster proclaimed that humanity, in its desire for comfort, had overreached itself and that ‘progress’...
★★★★☆ Desire in and of itself is artificial. According to cultural critic Slavoj Žižek, it is this that makes cinema “the ultimate pervert art....
★★★★☆ The pursuit of freedom is a learned rite of passage handed down to youthful exuberance. These freedoms often take the shape of kinetic...
★★★★★ Structures within the time frame of empirical perspectives have a tendency to unknowingly look in the wrong direction. Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter...
★★★★★ French critic and auteur François Truffaut’s tone and style have been both successfully and unsuccessfully mined by numerous directors over the years, including...
★★★★★ Simplicity is often the conduit to a perverse complexity that grows more enigmatic the longer the gaze of the enchanted is maintained. Even...
★★★★☆ In his 2002 documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, Robert Evans proclaimed there are three sides to every story: “My side, your...