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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2020
Before I press on with my usual roundup of the year’s releases, I’ll put forward a few other films that have hit me particularly hard this year. What should you watch to see out this most awful of awful twelve … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature
Tagged A White White Day, Ainu Mosir, Babyteeth, Being There, Black Panther, Coco, Crip Camp, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, His House, Host, Mangrove, Mank, Monsoon, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Possessor, Rocks, Scare Me, Shirley, The Assistant, The Great Dictator, The Vast of Night, Time
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Review in Brief: Monsoon (2019/20)
Hong Khaou’s follow-up to LILTING, another tale of love, identity and displacement, is quietly mesmerising. The cinematography of MONSOON is particularly striking, from the opening aerial shot of scuttling columns of Saigon traffic to how the camera frequently seems to … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged David Tran, Drama, Henry Golding, Hong Khaou, Lilting, Monsoon, Parker Sawyers
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