All U Need is Love [2021]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – A Quarantine caper solely for Hong Kong Cinema Enthusiasts
Once the pandemic hit, basically everyone was obsessed with shopping or stocking up their houses with essentials or reading up…
How to Kill a Cloud [2021]: โLocarnoโ Review โ The Quandaries of a Rainmaker
Who doesnโt love watching the clouds? On a warm summer day when you can see random patterns and faces, or…
Long Weekend [2021] Review: A Unique, Albeit Unfulfilling, Rom-Com
You’ve seen this movie time and again: a depressed (and newly) single man tries to get back on his feet…
Conflicting Resolutions and the Metaphor of the Aged People in Kieลlowskiโs Three Colors Trilogy
Krzysztof Kieลlowskiโs Three Colors Trilogy is an interestingly structured narrative that focuses on the colors, as the name suggests, of…
Actual People [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review: Seeking Sanity in the Modern World
Everyone goes through that phase in life when nothing seems to be going your way. Without any redeeming elements in…
Three Sisters [2021]: ‘NYAFF’ Review- A Terrific Moon So-Ri elevates this middling but moving drama
Lee Seung-Wonโs Three Sisters suffers from a case of thematic and stylistic overfamiliarity. Narratives around siblings who have crossed over…
The Sacred Spirit [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – A Dazzling, Mysterious Supernatural Fantasy
One hour into Chema Garcรญa Ibarra’s The Sacred Spirit (2021), a little girl uncomfortably asks, “What’s worse? Coke addiction or…
Wet Sand [2021] โLocarnoโ Review โ A Well-Crafted Microcosmic Tale of Love in a Prejudiced Society
Georgian visual artist and filmmaker Elene Naveriani in her sophomore feature, Wet Sand (2021) shows glimpses of auteurist streak which…