Posts by Eternality Tan

For more than 17 years, ET has been intensely passionate about everything that encompasses cinema. He is an adjunct lecturer of film studies, a professional curator, sometimes producing shorts, and always writing reviews. He's also an incredibly devoted fan of The Criterion Collection, plays the piano/keyboards and guitar, and absolutely adores Snoopies.

September 30, 2020March 1, 2026 by Eternality Tan

You, the Living (2007)

The second instalment of Andersson’s absurdist ‘Living’ trilogy is a gentler but no less incisive take on the beauty and doldrums of human existence.

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September 28, 2020October 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Synapses (2019)

There’s something elusively poetic about this dementia drama from Chang Tso-chi that elevates it into rich yet nuanced work about a fractured family’s relational dynamics in flux.

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September 27, 2020May 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Thelma (2017)

Joachim Trier’s attempt at genre-type filmmaking doesn’t really break new ground in this straightforward Norwegian psychological drama centering on a young woman with hidden telekinetic powers.

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September 27, 2020March 1, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

This wholly inventive and constantly surprising first film of Andersson’s ‘Living’ trilogy is one of the finest contemporary examples of absurdist cinema.

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September 26, 2020September 26, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Ondog (2019)

A dead body is found in the Mongolian steppes in this sublimely-shot if at times bizarre arthouse tale about carnal desires and the cycle of life.

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September 24, 2020 by Eternality Tan

My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)

Studio Ghibli’s first full digital animation is a light-hearted and free-spirited take on urban family life told in humorous, sometimes fantastical, vignettes that are created in a minimalist watercolour style.

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September 23, 2020January 1, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Swedish Love Story, A (1970)

There’s enough humour and ‘70s romantic schmaltz in Andersson’s first feature to make it a pleasing slice-of-life experience.

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September 22, 2020September 28, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Thanatos, Drunk (2015)

A layered, non-linear Taiwanese LGBT drama centering on the outsiders of society—their lives, struggles, and tragedies.

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September 21, 2020October 14, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Incitement (2019)

The mid-‘90s assassination of then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is radically told from the point-of-view of the assassin in this urgent and incisive sociopolitical-thriller about the dangers of holding extremist worldviews.

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September 21, 2020February 17, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The (2013)

A familiar if exposition-heavy anime that prides itself in being remarkably composed with its sheer beauty and breathtaking visuals.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

You, the Living (2007)

Synapses (2019)

Thelma (2017)

Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

Ondog (2019)

My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)

Swedish Love Story, A (1970)

Thanatos, Drunk (2015)

Incitement (2019)

Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The (2013)