Told in five chapters in reverse chronological order, Ozon charts the disintegration of a marriage in this well-acted bittersweet film.
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Told in five chapters in reverse chronological order, Ozon charts the disintegration of a marriage in this well-acted bittersweet film.
Bewildering yet contemplative in true Apichatpong Weerasethakul style, this is a challenging work of art. ย
There’s a lot of filmmaking artistry to appreciate, and so is the sizzling chemistry between Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi in this follow-up to In the Mood for Love (2000).
Slightly overlong and its offbeat humour doesnโt always work, but this is one of Wes Andersonโs most strangely enigmatic of screen adventures.
An artistic attempt at expressing and exorcising the ghosts of childishness in adulthood, but Gomesโ feature debut left me cold and unbothered.
Zhang Yimou’s best film of the 2000s decade, this is a drama-cum-tragedy that is never uncomfortable to reveal its sentimentalism amid stunning action set-pieces.
This giddying Golden Berlin Bear winner by German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin is uncompromising in its treatment of drug use, violence and sexโyet the potential for love, staged or otherwise, to redeem the most despairing of human beings seems ripe for the picking.
A German woman temporarily moves from Berlin to Marseille in this enigmatic work by a unique filmmaker largely in tune with the unfathomable ennui of her characters.
It might run a little too long and may not always compel, but Scorsese’s biopic features an excellent performance by DiCaprio and a stunning level of period detail.
Continue reading →In his beautiful if sometimes convoluted first feature, Makoto Shinkai shows the early rumblings of an artist who would become a first-rate anime director.