Hirokazu Koreeda has built his career as a director over the last two decades through thirteen feature-length family dramas in Japanese, collaborating with his regional actors, often unknown to Western audiences. After…
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Palme d’Or winner at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters, Kore-eda Hirokazu’s next film La vérité – The Truth is the opening film, in Competition, of the 76th Venice International Film Festival…
In the hands of any other film-maker, Tristan, based on the novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, would have been a unidimensional character study of the unusual, a shifting power relationship of an…
Humor and mockery, there is a fine line between these two and in history of any form of art where humor is an objective for the artist, there has been occasions where the artist failed to make the dichotomy between humor and mockery quite distinct. The line often becomes blurred for many; and therein lie the beauty and novelty of one artist who manages to provide pure humor though the subject of his work appears to take the form mockery. Belgian filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael displays that rare talent of humor in his film The Brand New Testament.