About Endlessness – Roy Andersson (2019)
I’m unsure as to whether I could name a single living director, who speaks to me in a way Roy Andersson does at the moment. His films are absurd, they are morbid at times, funny…
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Your Face – Tsai Ming-liang (2018)
When have you last looked at someone? I mean, really looked at someone, took your time to study every detail. I remember this marvellous shot in Silence in Dreamland by Tito Molina in which one…
Escaping time
I didn’t expect my thinking about the possibility of escaping time. It’s one of those age-old science-fiction dreams that people have. Time travel is perhaps the most imagined, the most commonly imagined form of escaping…
Almost There – Jacqueline Zünd (2016)
A caravan in the centre of the frame. An empty parking lot. The caravan neatly divides the frame into two equal parts. It’s a beautiful shot that, despite a faint male voice in the off,…
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…
A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on cinema
It’s been almost a year that I have seen Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), a film I remember was very good, but I was reminded of it only when…
Mrs Fang – Wang Bing (2017)
The winner of the Pardo D’oro at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, and a brave decision of the festival jury headed by Olivier Assayas, if you ask me. I’m simply noting a few things, which…
Wanderer – Martynas Kundrotas (2016)
!!! This film is now available on tao films until 30 June 2017 !!! Three months ago, I have moved to Brittany after two pretty depressing years in the north of France. Now that the…
Osmosis – Nasos Karabelas (2016)
!!! This film is available on tao films until the end of March 2017 !!! And there he stands, a ruin forgotten by everyone – and more so by himself than by any other. He…
Life after Life – Zhang Hanyi (2016)
Zhang Hanyi’s Life after Life reminded me of a lot of things at once. I had a real flood of thoughts in my mind while watching the film, which I actually didn’t expect to be slow….