Hidden Letters and secret patriarchy
Du Feng talks about the eponymous secret Nüshu alphabet, traditionally inaccessible to men, practiced only by women, but she does it in the Western fashion, falling into a trap…
Du Feng talks about the eponymous secret Nüshu alphabet, traditionally inaccessible to men, practiced only by women, but she does it in the Western fashion, falling into a trap…
TellTellingCinema is a non-cyclical series of podcasts devoted to cinema related issues. In the first episode I discuss the exploitation of women (and not only) in cinema (and not only).
“Verdict” is a shocking film that takes no prisoners. Raymund Ribay Gutierrez draws his story with such ruthless, naturalistic at times, firmness…
“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.
“Planet of the Humans” exceeded the threshold of 6 million views and grew a thick layer of controversy around itself. Although Moore has accustomed viewers…
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.
The new film by the two-time winner of the Golden Palm includes not only the story of an employee who falls into the trap of working under a private franchise (unwittingly giving up his employee rights to “work for himself”), but also a classic family drama.
Superficially, one cannot find any mistakes: the technical performance, image and sound quality, fact-based script or theme – inhumanly timed women in Algeria of 1997, when religious fundamentalism was becoming stronger – are pretty solid. But exactly this perfection is something that completely breaks the film’s credibility. The heroines of Papicha are not only written as in the American film, but also were filmed as so.
Ad Astra presents the “near future” of human civilization, when the colonization of nearby planets will become a way to acquire valuable resources and expansion of space appropriated by man, the expansion of capitalism.
In his ninth full-length movie, Quentin Tarantino returns to the idea he played before in the Inglourious Basterds (2009). Against the backdrop of real, historical events, he builds a fictional story, slowly connecting puzzle pieces together for the construction of alternative reality. Here’s how a gu