How to Drown in Sentimentality – Naomi Kawase’s The True Mothers review
The director moved back in her creative development to her teenage years, as if she was no longer able to use the mature, self-developed language of the film.
The director moved back in her creative development to her teenage years, as if she was no longer able to use the mature, self-developed language of the film.
Although it might seem that the gangster comedy convention, additionally strengthened by western (or rather eastern) genre, is a perfect excuse to face the toxic image of Polishness…
“Beautiful Things” by Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasina cannot be watched like a regular movie. One participates in it – as in a ritual, devout contemplation, or trance with art.
Romay builds his hero on extreme emotions – latent but explicit for the viewers. On frustration resulting from loneliness, alienation and a sense of emptiness, on anger and hatred, but also on curiosity about life, love…
Rasoulof tries to convince the viewers of one’s causative agency, the sense of making morally difficult decisions, and the need to fight despotism…
Woman is only seemingly democratic when it comes to presenting femininity. The languages (with an emphasis on French) of developed countries dominate the movie – the countries of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Central America, the Arabian Peninsula and a large part of Africa have been almost completely omitted
The eponymous hungry ghosts are the souls of those who years ago came to Christmas Island and were left without burial. The local Chinese community believes…
The film by the Belgian artist makes us aware of the scale and opens our eyes to what we all perfectly know and effectively learned to ignore – to disregard of human rights in the name of the artificial capital-driven needs.
Amjad Abu Alala creates a portrait of a conservative society in which the hypocrisy is clearly visible and the threshold of freedom cannot be crossed so easily.
The film by the South African director can be seen as a lost work of blaxploitation from the 70s. There is some charm in it, but also some doubt.