‘I Came By (2022)’ is an English suspense thriller teetering closely on edge with a high heart rate ‘beat’ throughout the film, portraying a poetic rhythm of dichotomies and irony. The narrative…
Tag: Neo-Noir
In his first work after the hit It Follows (2014), David Robert Mitchell goes back and forth to voyeurism, celebrity culture, conspiracy theories and dog murders. Los Angeles has been scenery and…
In Jean Pierre Melville’s carefully constructed neo-noir world of “Le Samourai“, every male character wears a raincoat covering their entire two-piece vest and irrespective of the weather – a grey hat. They…
UK-born film-maker John Boorman’s American debut Point Blank (1967) is one of my most favorite noir cinema made long after the official end of the film-noir era. In fact, Point Blank exemplifies…
An impeccably rendered & thoroughly absorbing character study that relies more on images than words to convey its themes & emotions, Drive (2011) is smart, subversive & soulful in ways that most…
Andhadhun is now streaming on Netflix Andhadhun, or The Blind Note – the latest from ace ‘thrill-er’ Sriram Raghavan’s stable – tries to be clever and pull a fast one on the…
