The Sacred Spirit [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – A Dazzling, Mysterious Supernatural Fantasy
One hour into Chema García Ibarra’s The Sacred Spirit (2021), a little girl uncomfortably asks, “What’s worse? Coke addiction or…
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![Bucolic [2021] ‘Locarno’ Review – A Portrait of Country Life minus the Idealized Perspective](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Bucolic-2021-768x512.jpg)
Bucolic [2021] ‘Locarno’ Review – A Portrait of Country Life minus the Idealized Perspective
Bucolic indicates the pleasant or romanticized aspects of countryside and country life. The literary genre of ‘Pastoral’ in fact evokes…
![Everything Is Cinema [2021] Review: An Inspiringly Fleshed-Out Docufiction That Hits Strangely Affecting Notes](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Everthing-is-Cinema-768x479.jpg)
Everything Is Cinema [2021] Review: An Inspiringly Fleshed-Out Docufiction That Hits Strangely Affecting Notes
Everything Is Cinema (2021) has a deceptively simple plot. Chris is a young filmmaker who set out to film Calcutta with…
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A Balance [2021]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – A searing take on Japan’s Culture of Shaming
In Yujiro Harumoto’s intense, and slightly overlong A Balance (premiered at Berlin Film Festival 2021), a documentary director Yuko (a fine…
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The Balcony Movie [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – Perceiving the Rhythmic Flow of Life from a Everyday Space
Pawel Lozinski’s captivating documentary, The Balcony Movie (Film Balkonowy, 2021) comes across as an interesting artistic experiment to watch in…
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Sweat [2021] Review – A haunting albeit unfocused exploration of the perils of social media fame
Social media influencers are hard workers. As much as I judge them for creating an online presence that seems to…
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Aya [2021]: ‘Cannes’ Review – A Gentle Coming-of-Age film about Being A Woman and loving your Roots
Films about coming-of-age are instantly appealing to me. This is a phase of life that is drenched in receptive timelessness….
The 15 Best Indian Movies of 2015
Indian cinema has been experimenting a lot in recent years and has been quite successful by far. New actors and…
10 Essential Filipino Movies of the decade (2010s)
A new generation of Filipino filmmakers are re-establishing the relationship between movies and society by utilizing the expansion of materials…