A war movie that is intentionally ‘all talk but no action’—it doesn’t really make us feel for the characters, but we might just grasp the futility of being a cog in the machine.
Tag / 2005
Be with Me (2005)
Khoo’s work here is oddly affective, finding the poetic in the mundane as stories of love and solitude come together in elliptical fashion.
Election (2005)
There’s not much action in this, but To develops a mostly engrossing triad flick about infighting and power plays.
Three Times (2005)
Continue reading →An unexpectedly weaker effort from Hou —this is a well-intentioned experimental exercise in form, style and structure, but it comes off as uneven and unsatisfactory.
