Oliver Laxe’s Sirat explores both physical and metaphysical aspects of life. On one hand, it portrays transcendental life; on the other, it shows that death is inevitable. There is no harm in tasting the limitless freedom of life. But life’s adversities should also be accepted and embraced with open arms. Both life and death coexist …
Jafar Panahi is a towering personality in the world of cinema. He has repeatedly shown the world that filmmakers can even risk their lives to make films. Defying multiple deadly adversities and death threats, he keeps raising his voice against the oppression and atrocities of common Iranians committed by the Iranian regime. He was kept …
Kleber Mendonca Filho’s historical, political, and neo-noir crime thriller The Secret Agent is an incredibly important film. Director Kleber portrays the tumultuous time period of Brazil under the infamous military dictatorship that ruled Brazil brutally from 1964 to 1985. When ordinary citizens lose freedom, there is no limit to their indescribable suffering. Living life at …
Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel of the same title, portrays William Shakespeare’s romance, family life, and the influence of his only son Hamnet’s death on his great play Hamlet. Despite disagreements among literary critics, it is widely believed that Hamnet’s untimely death at the age of eleven heavily influenced him to …
Rarely do filmmakers wait throughout their lives to make a single project. Guillermo del Toro waited for more than fifty years for his dream project, Frankenstein. He is undoubtedly the master of creating humanoid monsters. The monsters portrayed in his films don’t scare the viewers; rather, they make the viewers fall in love with them. …
Kim Ki-duk’s The Bow is an unusual, deeply emotional, spiritual, and heartwrenching love story. It carries two opposite dimensions simultaneously. On one hand, it shows control, restriction, and possessiveness; on the other hand, it depicts an obsessive, self-sacrificing love story. The entire film is woven with spirituality and numerous spiritual metaphors. An old man (Jeon …
Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night is not a typical Bergman film that deals with the usual Bergman themes, such as the existential, psychological, and spiritual suffering and struggle of humans. This film is a romantic comedy that is based on adultery or multiple extramarital affairs. In this film, the couples are attracted to …
Ingmar Bergman is revered as one of the most important filmmakers in the history of cinema. He portrayed multiple complex psychological, spiritual, and existential issues in his films throughout his life. His films often deal with the suffering of ordinary humans and their existential crises. He questions ‘the silence of God’ in multiple films. In …
It is not easy to make films linked to a religion. A slight deviance or discrepancy can lead to a major controversy. The followers of the religion worldwide are offended and hurt, which affects the film significantly. However, any religious activities are performed, or any religious organizations are run by ordinary people, not by god. …
There are very few films based on architecture as a theme. Brady Corbet’s latest film, The Brutalist, is a precious addition to those films. It deals with the brutalist architecture type that gained momentum and recognition after World War II. A Bauhaus-trained Hungarian Jewish architect and Holocaust-survivor named Laszlo (Adrien Brody) is forced to leave his …