Continue reading →This is Hong Kong tear-jerking melodrama at its best, boasting a superb performance by Anita Yuen.
Author / Eternality Tan
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Continue reading →If South Korean vengeance movies are your thing, this extremely violent and misogynistic flick might just scare you away.
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Continue reading →This is free-form, counter-cultural Japanese cinema at its astonishing best—playful, powerful and brutal all in the same breath.
Housemaid, The (1960)
Continue reading →One of the classic Korean cinema’s most adored works – this is a tale of lust, greed and revenge.
Horse Thief, The (1986)
Continue reading →This is experimental filmmaking on an epic scale, and also one of the greatest pictures to emerge from China’s Fifth Generation.
Housemaid, The (2010)
A mediocre take on the 1960 original with little substance or sexual tension to boot.
Wadjda (2012)
Continue reading →This minor miracle shot entirely in Saudi Arabia by a female director is at its core a simple and subtle drama told with remarkable clarity.
Varda by Agnes (2019)
Continue reading →Varda leaves us with a final masterclass to savour, lovingly made in the documentary form that she so adored.
Return to Burma (2011)
A promising debut from a gifted filmmaker whose raw, neorealist approach gives authenticity to the stories of the poor in Burma.
Nina Wu (2019)
A stylistic departure from his rural ‘border dramas’, Midi Z’s disconcerting meta-filmic response to the #MeToo movement features a stunning performance by co-writer Wu Ke-Xi.
