It’s a major challenge to deal with the subject of visual impairment in a movie or a documentary. Because cinema often uses people’s sight as a prominent tool to guide us through…
Tag: Locarno International Film Festival
Closing Time opens a time portal to the lyrical mundanity of quotidian characters in the stillness of the night. Highly meditative and sedately paced, Closing Time is a poetry in motion, an…
Who is to decide when it comes to faith? Who makes the final decision when a body aches; both from the inside and outside? In Germinal Roaux’s sophomore feature ‘Fortuna’, a fourteen-year-old girl from…
Those Who Work (Ceux qui travaillent) | dir. Antoine Russbach In one of the psychiatric sessions of Frank (played by Olivier Gourmet), a psychiatrist declares that his love for work is insurmountable, to…
The Fragile house is a parable on the wretched condition of the working class and its irreversible consequences on the people around them. Film-maker Lin Zi and cinematographer WU Wei use the…
On the onset, What Doesn’t Kill Us looks like a Hollywood ensemble of the likes of Love Actually that deals with love and relationships. But in the able hands of Sandra Nettelbeck,…
