The auteur brings his idiosyncratic style and a developing sense of filmmaking maturity to the East in this colourful and quirky shot-in-India road trip.
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The auteur brings his idiosyncratic style and a developing sense of filmmaking maturity to the East in this colourful and quirky shot-in-India road trip.
As per tradition, here are my predictions for the BAFTAs 2021!
WW: Will Win
DH: Dark Horse
Results: 15/25 (21/25 if including dark horses)
Continue reading →An oddball coming-of-age comedy revolving around a prep school student that is well-staged to a fault.
A recently-widowed mother who yearns to be independent and her overprotective son cross paths in what is a slightly nondescript second feature from Meszaros about the perceived strengths and weaknesses of familial bonds.
Nomadland before Nomadland, Rosi’s raw, no holds barred documentary on folks living in isolation on buses and vans in the Californian desert finds grace and empathy in their existence.
A masterfully thought-out and dreamlike meta-fiction by a remarkable talent of Portuguese cinema—it is both visually arresting and poetically told, and will leave you in a trance.
Humphrey Bogart has never been better in Nic Ray’s atypical noir about love, doubt and violence.
While rather light on story, there’s a refreshing, liberating quality to Meszaros’ feature debut about a young Hungarian woman’s search for romantic and psychological fulfilment.
Rivette’s quaint adventure featuring two women—one an ex-con, the other a vagabond—navigating the streets of Paris is a freewheeling if also meandering look at how crime is a game of chance and consequence.
You gotta love De Palma – Blow Out is a twisted and suspenseful mystery, and also a clever if devilish testament to the art of moviemaking.