Exotica (1994): A Confounding Tale of Strange Obsessions and Unbearable Suffering: What happens when you lose someone close to you? How do you go on about your life as if nothing happened?…
Looking back at your past to revive a feeling. Hidden in the burrows of history. Some cherishable moments kept safely in a closet. Where only we can access them. Privately and with…
Indie film projects have a history of delving into young adult struggles with career prospects and general disillusionment with societal norms and standards. From Joe Swanberg to Linklater to Noah Baumbach, each…
In Five Times Two (2004), the benefit of hindsight turns into a paralyzing terror. When the central couple walks into a hotel room after completing their divorce proceedings, we are totally unprepared…
Casa Grande (2014) – A Non-Traditional Bildungsroman About Class, Color, and Comfort: Segregation has been long since banned in most American countries. However, its roots go deep enough to re-emerge and rear…
Read My Lips (2001) Essay: In a deliberately obscure scene, the woman Carla routinely goes in front of the mirror and undresses. Audiard wants us, the viewers, to make sense of her…