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As You Were (2014)

January 23, 2023January 25, 2023 by Eternality Tan

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Martin Eden (2019)

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Tag / 2014

January 23, 2023January 25, 2023 by Eternality Tan

As You Were (2014)

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  • 2014, Singapore
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Meditative yet at times tonally dissonant, Liao’s work about the shifting temporalities of identity and memory is ultimately elusive.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 23, 2022November 25, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Joy of Man’s Desiring (2014)

  • Cote, Denis
  • 2014, Canada, Denis Cote, Documentary
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Cote makes the monotony of industrial labour poetic and hypnotic in this decent documentary exploration of what ‘work’ and ‘working’ means to the blue-collar fraternity.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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June 12, 2022June 12, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Court (2014)

  • Tamhane, Chaitanya
  • 2014, Chaitanya Tamhane, India
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An aged activist is being charged with abetting suicide in this exceptional feature debut that explores class, society and politics through the absurdity of legality.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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May 3, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

  • Scott, Ridley
  • 2014, Ridley Scott, UK, USA
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As a swords-and-sandals biblical epic, it is fairly spectacular, but remotely engaging.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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December 2, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Blind Massage (2014)

  • Lou, Ye
  • 2014, China, Lou, Ye
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While the storytelling sometimes struggles to convince, the technical prowess of Lou Ye’s team in capturing the extraordinary performances and putting together one mesmerizing and sensual image after another is deserving of praise.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 20, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Pasolini (2014)

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  • 2014, Abel Ferrara, France
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An unconventional, mosaic-like, though not always engaging account of the last day of Pasolini’s life—capturing the values, ideals and artistry of a filmmaker who was also an ideological provocateur.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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June 30, 2021November 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Phoenix (2014)

  • Criterion Collection, Petzold, Christian
  • 2014, Christian Petzold, Germany
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Petzold’s unique treatment of the doppelganger story as a Hitchcockian exercise in exorcising the Jewish-German trauma of WWII boasts an extraordinary denouement of unparalleled execution. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 16, 2021October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Second Game, The (2014)

  • Porumboiu, Corneliu
  • 2014, Corneliu Porumboiu, Documentary, Romania
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Football as cinema, if only barely, as the director and his father talk about the latter’s refereeing of the game, and by extension, Romania’s late ‘80s political history in this uneventful and uncompelling documentary.    

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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May 27, 2021August 2, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Song of the Sea (2014)

  • Moore, Tomm
  • 2014, Ireland, Tomm Moore
  • 5 Comments

An ethereal animated feature if there ever was one, Irish filmmaker Tomm Moore’s wondrous follow-up to The Secret of Kells is an antidote to the fast and furious world of Hollywood animation.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 17, 2021March 10, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Grand Budapest Hotel, The (2014)

  • Anderson, Wes, Criterion Collection
  • 2014, USA, Wes Anderson
  • 4 Comments

Watching Wes Anderson’s total command of his exquisite craft is a thing of pure joy few can match.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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