One of David Leanโs finest early works, this is a heartrending exploration of the joy and torment of an impossible love, as experienced giddily in a chance encounter by two strangers who are already married.
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One of David Leanโs finest early works, this is a heartrending exploration of the joy and torment of an impossible love, as experienced giddily in a chance encounter by two strangers who are already married.
Wong’s influential international breakthrough is fascinating, sensual and carefree, and an essential Hong Kong classic from the ’90s.
Wong Kar-Wai became one of contemporary Chinese cinemaโs most distinctive auteurs with this dreamy-romantic if fatalistic evocation of 1960s alienation and forlornness.
A terrific low-budget atmospheric horror film from the โ60s that is genuinely frightening, backed by a disquieting organ score.
Wes Anderson’s quirky set-in-Japan dogs’ tale is breathtaking in its stop-motion animation detail, while accruing a rhythmic sense of movement and storytelling momentum from start to end.
Slightly overlong and its offbeat humour doesnโt always work, but this is one of Wes Andersonโs most strangely enigmatic of screen adventures.
Watching Wes Andersonโs total command of his exquisite craft is a thing of pure joy few can match.
Colourful characters adorn this emotionally restrained, but immensely quirky Wes Anderson dollhouse drama.
A Wes Anderson masterpiece of craftsmanship, direction and visual storytelling that is arguably still his finest work.
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.