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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, […]

“War Pony” (2022) is a movie that could be distinguished by its so-called “realness”. Little special effects, a plot without a happy ending, and characters who are not the over-idealized version of archaic human exemplars. The scenography gives us the feeling as if the camera was simply following the people of Pine Ridge Reservation in […]

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 […]

Director Saim Sadiq’s Joyland was highly praised when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (the first Pakistani film to ever be selected), but it caused quite a bit of stir and discussion in Pakistan. The tender queer love story between a married man named Haider (Ali Junejo) and a transgender woman named Biba (Alina […]

I recently watched the latest Aronofsky film, The Whale. He managed to dismantle a new tabou by bringing up a murky subject that I’ve personally infrequently seen in movies. It is about Charlie, a severely obese English teacher hiding in his apartment awaiting death. With one final attempt at atonement, he is desperate to get […]

Tár is the third feature film written and directed by Todd Field, whose face you might have come across in Woody Allen’s Radio Days (1987) or Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Field was a budding jazz musician in his late teenage years but quit it for studying acting in New York. Perhaps this premature […]

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 […]

As a big fan of Scandinavian cinema, I was really looking forward to the premiere of this film. Godland is definitely worth a watch, and not only for lovers of cinema of this origin. This film was slow, extremely beautiful and made me want to buy a ticket to Iceland as soon as I left […]