Hail, Caesar! (2016) gleefully pokes fun at the faux wholesome images that the Hollywood movers and shakers tried to set forth for their clients while at the same time highlighting the remarkable talents and abilities that made them so great in the first place.
Above all the perversity that surrounds The New Girlfriend, which takes things way over the top in the later half, Ozon manages to make those themes seem quite alright as he maintains a very subtle, delicious and often humorous tone. The film shows how the needs of people are often more complicated than they make them out to be. The darker side of things have been jumbled up with real emotions of longing, grief and the dire need of being a real person. While the film is about gender confusion in all its forms, The New Girlfriend is basically an exploration of Friendship and the feeling that it gives you. The feeling that is often greater than the friendship you are in.
“Visaranai” was awarded Amnesty International Italy’s “Cinema for Human Rights” Director Vetrimaran in his interview to ‘Hindu’ says “A film should enrich me as well as the audience. It should allow me…
’45 years’ appears to be a simplistic marital drama but at its core, it is a complex character study. There are two central characters, Kate and Geoff, an old couple, married for 45 years. On one of their regular Monday mornings, a piece of news comes in form of a letter that the folks in Switzerland have found the body of Katya. The Husband’s love interest before marriage.
The Second Mother (2015) (112 minutes) impeccably works both as a thoughtful character study and as a treatise on the socioeconomic cold war. The terrific performances and restrained direction bestow a charmingly immersive movie experience.
Director Ramin Bahrani with well-crafted films like “Man Push a Cart” & “Chop Shop” explored the lives of pariahs, dejected from increasingly enclosed socio-economic structure. However, with “99 Homes”, he has tried to build a portrait of an outsider being enamored by the priviliges of belonging to a top-grade class.
In Uruguayan filmmaker, Manuel Nieto Zas’s quietly effective third feature “The Employer and the Employee”, a Directors’ Fortnight selection at the Cannes film festival, the intricacies of the relationship in the eponymous…
Some of the most magical films out there are related to the life of food. It takes a certain directorial elegance to make food in movies sing. Films like Julie & Julia…
Needle Drop in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman: There have been many examples of Martin Scorsese using the music he grew up with in order to convey a specific scene in his film.…
This August 2021, MUBI will be premiering some incredible films for the Indian audience. The avant-garde streaming service will see films from Pedro Almodovar, Sean Baker, and a much-needed spotlight on Indian filmmaker Don Palanthara.
Scottish writer-director Ben Sharrock’s Limbo (2020) is a part deadpan comedy and part character study of an asylum-seeker. The refugees, seeking a new life in Britain, are packed off to a remote…
This might be a personal qualm with the genre and not the right way to start a critic but I find films about infidelity incredibly dated. Especially the flimsy ones that present…
Floyd Russ’ Ayar, in its essence, diverges towards different branches of filmmaking; at first a little unfathomably, but not so much as it progresses. Ayar, at its core, starts as a familiar…
Brian Kateman is the co-founder and president of the Reducetarian Foundation. His documentary “Meat me Halfway” (co-directed by Journey Wade-Hak) is something that proposes that there is a middle ground that can…