This largely assured debut feature by Pakistani director Saim Sadiq boldly tackles themes of patriarchy and transgender as a young, married man becomes smitten by a trans woman.
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This largely assured debut feature by Pakistani director Saim Sadiq boldly tackles themes of patriarchy and transgender as a young, married man becomes smitten by a trans woman.
This beautifully animated adaptation of several Murakamiโs texts is talky and philosophical as it flits between surrealism and a sense of groundedness, urging us to find or create meaning in life even when there might be none.
A Brazilian feature debut to savour, from the weathered beauty of rural villages to compelling performances by the cast as an Argentinian drug kingpin seeks refuge in the home of a family, causing tensions to simmer.
A Korean adopted by a French couple when she was a baby returns to Korea for the first time as a French woman in Davy Chouโs intimate if chastening third feature, backed by an excellent performance from Park Ji-min in her acting debut.ย
This deliberately-paced and quietly introspective Croatian drama is bleak yet also an utterly personal and intimate look at the topic of suicide, opening the possibility for grief to gurgle to the surface as art tries to heal by the side.
Eco-โterrorismโ is explored in this tense and pulsating thriller about a group of environmental activists planning to bomb an oil pipeline in Texas as they try to find a precarious balance between agency and morality.
A saintly donkeyโs journey on acid, but Skolimowskiโs elusive, fragmentary work is also earthy, as he gives us a hallucinatory, at times visually dazzling, piece that pays obvious homage to Bressonโs much sparer and more spiritual ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’.ย
It will surely spark more conversations on womenโs agency in dealing with sexual assault and toxic masculinity, but Polleyโs work is visually uninteresting, and the performances might sometimes feel maudlin.ย
We havenโt had a great anti-war film in yearsโthis WWI piece comes just as timely in the wake of Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine, and is as technically accomplished and emotionally involving as some of the finest entries of the genre.
The Danielsโ wacky vision of a โmultiverseโ action-comedy somewhat revels in its outlandish excess, and is blessed with a cast (headlined by a superb Michelle Yeoh) pretty much game to realise it to its fullest potential.