The story associated with settler colonialism in North America, includes the erasure of Native women, destruction of families, erosion of language, and the violence of education, among others. Cinema – apart from cultural mutilation, of which Native symbolism has also been a victim – has addressed the perception of Native people as stubborn and violent […]
In chestnut for most college students, the ambiguity attributed to the post-graduation summer is the last threshold of familiarity, and the ushering in of more fears concerning the unknown. It is rather different from the transition into higher education that happened a couple of years ago – a transition that more often, if it is
You do not always get the dog you desire, but you always get the dog you happen to need. This expression, normally spouted by dog lovers, fits intriguingly well with the Chinese director Guan Hu’s “Black Dog”. On such a scale, the maverick director’s latest – an Un Certain Regard antagonist at the Cannes this
Patrice Leconte’s “Monsieur Hire” is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, spoken of two lonely people who have nothing at all to share, except loneliness. Murder has been committed, and the movie opens on a corpse. Monsieur Hire, a thin, balding middle-aged tailor, lives alone. Alice, on the other hand, is a beautiful, tender-hearted 22-year-old
Having a story with a couple of love-struck children and a title like Winter Spring Summer or Fall, I suppose if Gover says such things it will be in regard to Tiffany Paulsen’s feature series comparisons with Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and its sequels. Still it is very unlikely that such a canonical stature will
In France, the hours from five to seven are ordained as lovers’ meeting time. For Cleo that afternoon, there could not be anything further from her mind than sex. She is counting the minutes until she hears back on results from tests which she feels are going to tell her that she is dying from
Like westerns, we needn’t watch genre-reared samurai characters to understand and enjoy what makes them tick. They can enlarge to include tales of moral quandaries and human pitfalls. One of the best of these, “Harakiri,” concerns a down-and-out older itinerant samurai who presents an inescapable moral quandary to the headman of a formidable clan. He
Morrisa Maltz’s second narrative Jazzy evokes the intimacy and tenderness pertaining to girlhood. The film, set within the same universe as the director’s recognized first feature The Unknown Country, narrates six years of its protagonist’s life trying to find friends, new love and being exposed to small pleasures of growing up. Indeed Jazz’s storyline is
The Return: Because of the unique opportunity of watching more than two hundred films in a single festival, you begin to draw certain thematic and narrative links. This is for this type of delivery Leo Tolstoy’s line from Anna Karenina rang a bell: ‘Every unhappy family is unhappy in its unique way, every happy family
“Lift” is incredibly generic, very boring and quite forgettable too, just like any other film titled ‘Lift, the kind of glossy action film that moves really fast the way Netflix movies do, even if there is no requirement for it. It is not crassly silly like ‘Red Notice’, for example, but rather more on par
