The Interval Scene of Ishq (2019): “I am a man, I need to know” “Oh, I didn’t see any of this manliness yesterday” This conversation between the lovers at exactly the half-way…
Tag: Masculinity
An elephant trumpets in the background when we first see Ayyappan in Sachy’s highly entertaining action drama, Ayyappanum Koshiyum (2020). Ayyappan (Biju Menon) is a SI working in the Attappadi forest area…
Frank Krutnik identifies three types of noirs that feature a male protagonist in a certain form of masculinity. There is the man as a professional (most likely in a respectable job like…
Spike Jonze’s Her is one of the most powerful sci-fi films I have ever seen. Its commentary on techno-social isolation and loneliness is deeply cutting, and not at all far from how…
German film-maker Valeska Grisebach’s long-overdue third feature Western (2018) has got poker-faced men, horses, guns, and magnificent outdoor scenery as in the genre the movie’s title denotes. But it’s neither set in…
Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund has quickly emerged as one of contemporary world cinema’s most distinctive voices. As a wonderful satirist, who works in the sphere of sociology, Mr. Ostlund has made darkly…