8 Thottakkal aka 8 Bullets [2017] – A Flawed yet an Engaging Existential Thriller
Mysskin is my favorite film-maker in the contemporary Tamil cinema. There are certain things that don’t work for me in…
Incendies [2010]: Mercilessly Shocking and Beautifully Destructive
It feels as if I have lived a lifetime in two hours. As if I have traversed a thorny path…
Personal Shopper [2016] – An Imaginative Examination of Grief and Personal Identity
French film-maker Oliver Assayas has made divisive range of films in his three-plus decades film-making career. From the ‘Day for…
Tramps [2017]: Too Broke To Love
With the growing popularity of romantic comedies that use redundant or childish humor to speak to the smartphone using young…
Kaul (A Calling) [2016]: A Visually Stunning, Thrilling Existential Odyssey
“The film exposes how afraid we are to even acknowledge questions we have always had, rooted in the deepest recesses…
Ship of Theseus [2012] : A Collective Voyage
From the moment a young, blind, middle-eastern girl appears on screen photographing everyday life in the bylanes of Mumbai it…
A Decade On: Sunshine [2007]
I was properly blown away by this first viewing of Sunshine, mesmerized by the simple outer-space CG that produced such mind-boggling shots
Personal Shopper [2017]: An Arc Waiting to be Completed
There comes a scene where Kristen Stewart nearly breaks down in front of the camera with sheer rawness out of…