Season of the Devil – Lav Diaz (2018)
Those of you who have been with me for a couple of years already know that I have been a huge Lav Diaz fan. Melancholia, my first film by Diaz, thoroughly impressed me and when…
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A Yangtze Landscape – Xu Xin (2017)
There are films, which I’m grateful for. Grateful for being able to watch them, grateful for being able to write about them. Grateful for being able to experience them. There are those films that go…
Le vrai film est ailleurs – Mark John Ostrowski (2018)
A curious title, a provocative message from director John Mark Ostrowski, whose work I came across for the first time during my work on tao films VoD, where we show his previous film Sixty Spanish Cigarettes….
The Dog – Lam Can-zhao (2015)
There are films that one struggles to forget. They stay with you either because they are terrible, or simply really good. Others stay with you because they’re affective in their simplicity, and really touch your…
Pripyat – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1999)
A woman is walking through a dead landscape. Nature has taken over what Man has built. It’s wilderness we see. “These wild apples grew after the accident. There weren’t apples here before,” she says while…
The Woman Who Left – Lav Diaz (2016)
Hooray! I have finally managed to see Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left, which won the Venice International Film Festival about two years ago. I’m always a bit behind with those films now, as things have…
Tremor – Annik Leroy (2017)
It was in the French national paper Libération that I first came across the work of Annik Leroy. I added a note to myself and thought I really needed to get my hands on her work….
Ananke (Claudio Romano Nöhring, 2016)
!!! This film is now available on tao films VoD !!! A man and a woman walk slowly through the woods. The camera follows their steps. They seem exhausted. The woman stumbles and tries to…
Sixty Spanish Cigarettes – Mark John Ostrowski (2015, repost)
!!! This film is now available on tao films !!! There is something sublimely beautiful about Mark John Ostrowski’s film Sixty Spanish Cigarettes (2015). Fifteen minutes into the film, an extreme long shot captures the…
Postcards from the Verge – Sebastian Mez (2017)
My, my, my…another strong arthouse film this year. And another one which is too good to be written about, if I’m honest. There are films which cannot be described in words. Sebastian Mez’s Postcards from the Verge…