Isabella Pang

You walk into the cinema and sit amongst children, feeling somewhat out of place. 102 minutes later, you leave the cinema feeling shaken and wonder if the kids next to you were capable of comprehending the profound emotions that were so subtly expressed, without the utterance of even a single word. Robotic Dreams is more […]

It doesn’t take much for a dinner party to go south, especially if it’s on the eve of a big move from Hanover to Berlin in the midst of a pandemic. Tension runs high and an awkwardly unpredictable guest list consisting of hasty cancellations and uninvited guests pushes the night towards inevitable chaos and breakdown. […]

Words and facts play the most decisive role in the courtroom. But what if they can’t lead us to the full truth? Justine Triet’s newest film, Anatomy of a Fall, was presented at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. I had the chance to see the film in one of the great cinema halls in Cannes, […]

Korean music leads us into the opening scene: a receptionist interacts with an interesting new guest at the hotel, switching quickly from Korean to English and finally French when she sees her passport. A film that opens with music and three languages in succession within the first three minutes is well set for complexity. Having […]

The past weekend saw the closing of Berlinale 2023, one of the “big three” film festivals in the world. I had the chance to travel to Berlin last week and stayed for three days, seeing a total of 8 films, including the festival’s opening film She Came to Me and the world premiere of Manodrome […]