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Review Of Drive My Car: Japan’s Most Acclaimed Film Since Kurosawa’s Dreams Is An Exasperating Gem
Drive My Car(Japanese with English subtitles, Streaming on Mubi from 1 April) Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tōko Miura,Masaki Okada ,Reika Kirishima Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi Rating: *** ½ Is Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car the most vital Japanese film since Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams? More importantly, is Hamaguchi the most important Japanese filmmaker since Kurosawa? The world’s critics’ community seems to thinks so: his other 2021 film Wheel Of Fortune & Fantasy is in my opinion a superior work , but the chances of Drive My | Click Here...
Review Of Sundown: This Little Biggie Won’t GoTo The Market
Sundown (Amazon Prime/Mubi) Starring Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Lario Writer-Director Michel Franco Rating: *** ½ Those of us who have been fortunate enough to see Mexican director Michel Franco’s 2012 masterpiece After Lucia which won the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, would be familiar with his raw wounding parables on splintered family ties. In After Lucia a newly widowed father of a 17-year old must face the pain of his daughter being brutally bullied and ragged in her new school. Nothing is as bruta | Click Here...
Review Of Tathagat: A Commendable Film That Takes Itself Too Seriously
Tathagat(Mubi) Starring Harish Khanna, Ghanshayam Lalsa, Himanshu Bhandari Written & Directed by Manav Kaul Rating: * Tathagat as the title suggests, is a meditative melancholic mood-piece on mortality. It is suffused with ideas and ruminations on the quality of life. But clearly the restless disjointed thought-processes do not culminate in any definitive cogent perceptions on the question that haunts the protagonist: what makes life worth living, if not memories? Harish Khanna whom I’ve seen in powerful but mostly grey peripheral | Click Here...
Review of Mubi’s Family Romance LLC: A Japanese Gem
Family Romance LLC (Mubi) Starring Yuichi Ishii, Mahiro Tanimoto Directed by Werner Herzog Rating: *** ½ For Werner Herzog cinema is a medium that is meant to carry forward Man’s ever-renewable conversation with Nature. This slender masterly portrait of human relationships is played out mostly in a blossoming park filled with luscious flowers where we meet the shy 13-year old girl Mahiro meeting her father Yuichi for the first time. At first the girl is quiet (don’t strain to hear the background music, props are not a strong point in this spars | Click Here...