In the end, “When Marnie Was There” comes as a little film with a big heart, which is about the troubles a lonely subdued child can face during adolescence and how she gets through it; but what it really about is Love and how strong Love can be.
Reviews
Melancholic symphony of life & death, ironically titled “Youth” is a unique lyrical amalgamation of philosophical exploration about life, memories, regrets, aging and redemption, but above all, Youth (2015) is a beguiling mood piece.
In Natsamrat (The Emperor of Theater), which is a Shakespearean tragedy of the highest melodramatic order. Things have been placed in such honest manner that their similarities pave way for a little applause nonetheless. Bolstering with a soulful, devastating and deeply satisfying performance by Nana Patekar, the film leaves a mark in spite of its roaring run time.
Haitian film-maker Raoul Peck’s TV movie “Sometimes in April” (2005) opens on April 7th, the day of remembrance of the victims of the Rwandan Genocide (800,000 people were killed in 1994). A girl in a Kigali school asks her teacher Augustin Muganza about what could have been to stop the killings. Augustin answers with a set of ‘Maybe’, and eventually says the truth “I don’t know what could have been done”. It’s that uncertainty which haunts all of us humans trying to understand an act of genocide. “Sometimes in April” doesn’t treat its perpetrators as ‘monsters’, who have shed their human skin to maul innocent civilians.
Boy and the World is tragic & starkly bleak allegory of how miserable the world has become , showcasing perpetual vicious cycle of changing world’s implications on human condition and human relationship that is governed by human needs against their own will. Boy & the World takes a look at the ever changing outside of the world & the dynamic mechanism of socio-political functioning that influence the boy emotionally and physically. It uses boy as lens to see the horror of daily life.
The Tribe (Plemya) is an unflinching,visceral & bold story of culture of deaf teenagers, which is told entirely in non penetrable untranslated Ukrainian sign language. This unpleasantly dark tale of deaf teenage seems to set in the real world, supported by non-professional actors add to the grittiness and observational realistic tone to it , and it offers much more than usual teenage school drama.
All Posts
Crossover adaptations of movies are nothing new in Hindi cinema but the trend is largely limited to action and thriller flicks. Not that the attempt to remake drama has not been made…
Kazuhiko Hasegawa’s The Man Who Stole the Sun (Taiyo wo nusunda otoko, 1979) is riddled with the anarchic spirit of the Japanese New Wave that it would evoke divisive reactions from its…
Ever since Malayalam cinema underwent a renaissance in the past decade- with the influx of new-age filmmakers creating some groundbreaking work, it has been unarguably the foremost film industry in India when…
Many things have been made possible by new tech, but one of the most important is the Web. From quick message transmission to the newly developed internet of things, the net has…
Before he was a talking dragon protecting gold, before he was the swift-talking-inhuman-robot living on 221B, Baker Street, before he was a terrorist with an ideology bringing darkness on to the Enterprise,…
Why Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa is a Near-Perfect Tribute to Its Inspiration: When Musafir Ali (played by Manoj Bajpayee) walks into the train washroom after he recognizes his fellow traveler, Mr. Baig…
Iceland is one of my preoccupations, sometimes an obsession. It’s unimaginably beautiful yet very intimidating natural atmosphere – fjords, valleys, volcanoes, etc – is fascinating to behold, at least in terms of…
Films about coming-of-age are instantly appealing to me. This is a phase of life that is drenched in receptive timelessness. We come of age whenever we are struck by a realization. An…