Iro – Hadi Mohaghegh (2018)
What should I do? Should I go or not go? An old man mumbles these words into his beard. With a slight hunchback and visibly...
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Tag: absence
Notturno – Gianfranco Rosi (2020)
March 22, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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After the end credits of Gianfranco Rosi’s new film Notturno appeared on the screen, the blog post I had mentally written throughout the duration of...
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Village of Women – Tamara Stepanyan (2019)
March 10, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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In Wang Bing’s Three Sisters (2012), three young children are left to their own devices. The mother left the family to live with another man,...
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Present. Past. – The Cinema of Lav Diaz
September 12, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Yesterday, I presented a brief overview of the cinema of Filipino director Lav Diaz as part of a webinar on arthouse cinema, organised by the...
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Birha – Ekta Mittal (2018)
July 20, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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I have fallen in love. I have fallen in love with a film, with a filmmaker. I have fallen in love with a hypnotising atmosphere,...
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Father and Sons – Wang Bing (2014)
June 15, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Over several years, Wang Bing has built up a library of films about migration. We tend to understand migration as a movement of people. It...
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The Tree – André Gil Mata (2018)
November 27, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Tarkovskian. Tarr-esque. Filmind. André Gil Mata’s The Tree had me thinking a lot, had me admire what I saw and had me marvel over the...
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Vitalina Varela – Pedro Costa (2019)
October 28, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to think of a woman in film, who has such a magical, such an overpowering aura around her as...
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Time in Japanese art and society
July 30, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Those of you who have been with me for a while will remember that I used to be very keen on establishing a link between...
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By the name of Tania – Mary Jimenez, Bénédicte Liénard (2019)
May 17, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Since the Industrial Revolution, children have been massively exploited for work. Even though nation states regulated child labour, there is still a lot of work...
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