Reviews
Review: Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid
There’s a strangeness to contemporary South Korean Cinema that I find intriguing. An alluring sense of the uncanny seems to pervade its film stock, as though the South Korean worldview is just a tad bizarre, as though its gaze falls on a spot just slightly aslant from … Read more
Reviews
Film Review: Please Give
Please Give, Nicole Holofcener’s most recent film, opens with a panoply of breasts. They offer themselves unabashed, fragmented in montage, for scrutiny and appraisal. The array is set to The Roches’ self-deprecating tune ‘No Shoes,’ and the track’s wittily constructed catalogue of grievances (‘I had no shoes … Read more
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Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams [review]
This gently illuminating documentary from filmmakers Masha and Yonathan Zur casts its gaze upon the life of critically acclaimed Israeli writer and political commentator Amos Oz. Drawing deeply from his memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, the film paints a thoughtfully evocative portrait of the eminent … Read more
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Film Review: Micmacs
Micmacs, the latest film from French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is a chaotic revenge caper against two evil arms dealers and the world of pain and death they represent. Imbued with the same enchanting sense of joyful whimsy that characterises Delicatessen, A Very Long Engagement and the beguiling … Read more
