13. Five Flavours Asian Film Festival: Every Balloon Must Burst
The Tibetan creator is looking at the conflict arising from the meeting of customs, beliefs and conservative culture with Chinese one-child policy.
13. Five Flavours Asian Film Festival: Nothing But Singing
Bulbul Can Sing talks about the tragedy of lost youth, taken by the conservative society. Adolescence, although it follows its natural path – the first, innocent love affairs, looks, and meetings – is brutally stopped.
13. Five Flavours Asian Film Festival: Through the Stomach to the Heart
Although SABU follows the well trodden paths – a portrait of an emotional killer is nothing new – he does it at the highest level, combining genres at least as efficiently as Bong Joon-ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer) and proving that using and playing with old clichés and narrative patterns do not have to be something bad.
13. Five Flavours Asian Film Festival: Fruit Chan, slums and prostitutes
Fruit Chan relishes violence in his film. Although he himself claims that his film is not anti-feminist, it’s hard not to get the impression that it is at least offensive. Heroes do not cause sympathy. This is a problem because they deviate from the norm. One is a cripple, the other a fool, the third a nitwit. It is the same different world we have met in the artist’s earlier films. This time, however, it is a world that causes more contempt than compassion or interest.
13. Five Flavours Asian Film Festival: #metoo in giallo style
Why the beneficiary of the system in which men feel like donuts in fat, should be worried about the fate of his heroine – except that the topic will almost certainly act as a bait? Midi Z, however, managed to convince me to his movie.
Our Bigger Brother
Move the Grave, the full-length debut of a young Korean director, Seung-o Jeong, is a successful cross-section of Korean society from the perspective of one three-generation family.
NH19: Lunar Dream
30-year-old director is balancing on the edge of reality very well. He can hypnotize the viewer, strengthen the projection-identification (3D works very strongly here), the viewer’s bond with the hero and the impression of intermingling worlds.
NH19: Blood and Cacti
The images that Diaz feeds us still hypnotize and incline to contemplation and spiritual experience of the film, realizing the creator’s assumption: “total cinema experience”.
10 movies that moved me in 2018
The ability to be moved in the cinema has a ratio inversely proportional to the number of movies watched and one’s experience. The effectiveness of the image in this area does not necessarily mean that we are dealing with a masterpiece, but every tear shed in a dark room full of unknown people is a special moment. Therefore, instead of classic summary of the year, I serve you a list of my ten emotions.
12. Five Flavours Asian Film Festival – Teenagers, Sex and Corpse
Screenplay based on Kyoko Okazaki’s manga of the same title, tells us about a group of teenagers burdened with puberty problems. The action takes place in the 90s, i.e. at the first more critical moment for the Land of the Rising Sun.
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