Slow Burn

Few snippets of on-screen text in modern foreign cinema have been as intriguing as the opening blurb of Tsai Ming-liang’s latest film, Days — “This film is intentionally unsubtitled.” — not just because it points to a…

A horrific crime, locals thirsty for vengeance. When Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to his remote, drought-stricken hometown in the Australian outback to go to the funeral of a friend, he’s roped into solving a…

David, a husband and father of four desperately attempts to keep his family intact during a tense separation from his wife in The Killing of Two Lovers. The couple agrees to see other people, but…

In The Winter Lake, Tom and his mother Elaine move to a small village in Ireland after a traumatic event surrounding Tom occurs. They quickly meet Ward and his daughter Holly. The pair has a…

The year 1999 has long been considered one of the greatest years in cinema history. I see no issue with that position. It’s a shame that so many were left out when it came Oscar…

You’d think that after Portrait of a Lady on Fire, we wouldn’t need romances, or even narrative films, anymore. I mean, Céline Sciamma has kinda been there and conquered that. Be that as it may,…

After Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film Children of Men, the Science-Fiction Fertility Thriller is a sub-genre rarely seen in cinema. But leave it to the mistress of the cinema of the body, Claire Denis to tackle…