Leila’s Brothers (2022) IFFK Review: Exploring Generational Wealth and Generational MisogynyIf one were to cut out the grandiose wedding sequence from the last quarter of…
Burning Days (2022) IFFK Review: An Incendiary Political Thriller Critiquing Corruption, Ecocrisis and HomophobiaPolitical thrillers, often acting as a reflection of the sinister socio-political cataclysm festering beneath the…
Chile ’76/1976 (2022) IFFK Review: A Character Study on Political AwakeningIn Manuella Martelli’s 1976 or Chile ’76, Carmen remodels her summer house in Las Cruces…
The Whale [2022] Review – A stagey but intimate character-drama that carefully treads the fine line between honesty and cynicismWatching ‘The Whale’ after being aware of Darren Aronofsky’s candor for investigating what lies in…
Huesera [2022] Review – A bone-crunching folktale that distills the anxieties of modern-day motherhood through the lens of self-deceptionFor a film that opens with our leading lady making an offering at a shrine…
Return to Seoul [2022] Review – A Masterful character study of a life stuck in the in-betweens We often don’t understand the sadness that resides inside us. The protagonist in Davy Chou’s…