Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White is an odyssey of a Jianghu gangster and his moll through the changing landscape of China and its people. The film not only narrates a drama but also touches upon the socioeconomic changes in modern China. It portrays the self-sacrifice of a woman but not revenge. It narrates the …
Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese returns with a mysterious, thrilling, revengeful, and overall philosophical gangster film The Irishman. When names like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel are associated with a film, the expectations reach the sky. All these greats, whom viewers know for decades, come together on a platform and deliver …
Quentin Tarantino pays a heartfelt tribute to the 1960s Hollywood through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The objective behind making this film is not to tell a particular story. The film is a cinematic representation or writ of the contemporary events happening during the 1960s. Vintage cars, neon-lit billboards, hoardings, signboards above the movie …
Todd Phillip’s Joker is based on the celebrated villain character of DC Comics, ‘Joker’, set in the Gotham city in 1981. Even though the characters in the film are based on DC Comics characters, the story of the film is an original story co-written by Todd Phillips himself. The film pinpoints and shows how society …
Pedro Almodóvar’s deeply personal Pain and Glory is one of the finest films of 2019 as well as the last decade. This film is a vivid reflection of his life and strongly connected to his life events. The character of Salvador Mallo played by Antonio Banderas is the alter ego of Almodóvar. When the film …
The life and struggle of a North Macedonian female beekeeper are portrayed in Honeyland in the form of a documentary. The film does not get restricted to only in the descriptions of daily life saga, rather highlights certain aspects of the protagonist’s life which can only be realized through experiences. The experiences are so vast …
Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables deals with some of the major problems that exist not only in France but all over the world. It is extremely unfortunate that issues like racial discrimination, hatred based on ethnicity, stereotyping, and social segregation still exist in the 21st-century modern world. Cinema is a reflection of society. So, it is …
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite depicts South Korean class struggle vividly in a satirical way. The film takes a tour of both Kim and Park families. The Kims represent the poor, live in a squalid basement apartment, and fold pizza boxes to make both ends meet. Their economic condition is pretty much explained when they use a neighbor’s internet …
Senegal’s current socio-economic condition is reflected in Mati Diop’s maiden directorial venture Atlantics. The story has certain supernatural blending as well. Somewhere the oppressed souls, both socially and economically, find solace in revenge. They return and reappear as lifeless zombies in the bodies of their girlfriends. The story of Atlantics is unveiled against the backdrop …
Jan Komasa’s 92nd Academy Awards nominee for Best International Feature film Corpus Christi is a religious yet liberal film and strongly deals with the ideologies of redemption and salvation. Even though the film is made on the ground of Christianity, it surely raises some logical and moral questions. It is surely not blasphemous. If religion …