Foreign
Film Review – The Kind Words
In The Kind Words secret revelations about a family’s past seem to have no effect on a group of grown children who meander around for two hours never changing or growing. Dorona Cohen (Rotem Zissman-Cohen), the only daughter in the family, is currently separated from…
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SIFF Film Review – Dawn
If life is often absurd, life in the Eastern Bloc must have had exceptionally absurd particularities. These details are warped even further in Dawn (original language title: Ausma), a hilariously grotesque parade of everyday life in a Latvian farming collective: through denunciations and bowl haircuts;…
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SIFF Film Review – The Final Master
In writer/director Haofeng Xu’s The Final Master (2015), a Wing Chun practitioner (Fan Liao) attempts to open a school in the city of Tianjin. The master wants to preserve the martial art for future generations, as was the dying wish of his master. However, due…
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SIFF Double Feature – Tag and The Lure
Tag: Here is what I think happens in this movie directed Sion Sono; it’s kind of hard to tell because this is some crazy shit. Dreamy schoolgirl Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) and her friends are on bus when a mysterious gust of wind shears the bus…
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SIFF Double Feature – Warehoused and Ceviche’s DNA
Warehoused: Unemployed for two years, Nin (Hoze Meléndez) starts his first day as the warehouse-manager-in-training at Salvaleon (Mexico’s second largest producer of aluminum flag poles and ship’s masts) under the watchful eye of Mr. Lino (José Carlos Ruiz), manager for the past 28 years. Mr.…
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SXSW Film Review – Suntan
Suntan is well-structured and well-meaning in its goals but is sadly lacking in relevancy. This is a story that has been done before, and a lot more interestingly. Starting off, there is our protagonist Kostis (Makis Papadimitriou), a middle-aged doctor who is beginning a new…
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SXSW Film Review – Loev
Loev, the first feature from writer-director Sudhanshu Saria, is at its most beautiful and heartbreaking when it focuses on what is said when the characters aren’t speaking, and what is avoided when they do. This is a film about love between two people who can…
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SXSW Film Review – Chevalier
It’s kind of ironic that I’m about to give my very subjective opinion about a film, considering the characters in this particular film decide to ignore the fact that any sort of opinion is based solely in subjective when they decide it’s a good idea…
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