Juan Jose Campanella’s The Secret in Their Eyes is a crime thriller and also a drama film. In this film, Campanella brings back the tumultuous time period of 1970s Argentina. The film has two tracks. On one track, it flows like film noir, but on the other track, it portrays a passionate but unspoken love …
Andrei Tarkovsky is widely considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the world. He was a Soviet Russian filmmaker who studied film direction at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). He made seven feature films in his life out of which five films were made in Soviet Russia. However, his relationship with …
Alfonso Cuaron stepped out of Hollywood and returned to his beloved motherland for his erotic coming-of-age road film Y Tu Mama Tambien. Even though apparently it looks like a comedy film, there are multiple layers underneath it. Amidst the growing up and sexual awakening of two teenage boys, Cuaron highlights multiple important contemporary issues. Two …
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmark’s political thriller spy film The Lives of Others vividly shows how citizens suffer when a country does not believe them and doubts their activities. Their basic civil and human rights are violated through state-sponsored mechanisms. All the time, ordinary citizens are kept and monitored under strict surveillance without their knowledge and …
Joel Coen adapts great William Shakespeare’s immortal play Macbeth for his film The Tragedy of Macbeth. This film marks the maiden directorial venture of Joel Coen without the involvement of his brother and collaborator Ethan Coen. Even though William Shakespeare’s classic play has been adapted for theater and films multiple times, Joel Coen’s The Tragedy …
1969 and contemporary time periods are reflected in Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s concert documentary Summer of Soul (….Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). A piece of art is nothing but a piece of life. So, it is quite obvious that art always reflects life. Contemporary social, economic, political, and cultural conditions are reflected through …
Celine Sciamma builds a kids’ fantasy world in her beautiful and emotional film Petite Maman. However, the film is not only filled with excitement and fun but also suffering, detachment, loss, and pain. After her grandmother’s sad demise, a little girl named Nelly (Josephine Sanz) is taken to her mother Marion’s (Nina Meurisse) country house …
Pedro Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers largely focuses on his favorite subject motherhood. But, this film is not a story of a single mother, but rather a story of two mothers. Even though the title of the film suggests their parallel lives, their lives do not remain parallel but intersect and assimilate with each other. Parallel Mothers …
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s deeply meditative film Memoria is mostly driven by sound. The protagonist of the film Jessica (Tilda Swinton) suffers from the exploding head syndrome and because of that, she hears a sudden loud boom sound very often and sometimes at odd times like while sleeping at midnight. Initially, she is not able to realize …
Andrei Tarkovsky paid a heartfelt tribute to Ingmar Bergman through his melancholy yet beautiful film The Sacrifice. This is the final film of his life and he made it while undergoing treatment for terminal cancer. Like all his films, this film too deals with the deep philosophical concepts of spiritual awakening, journey, and fulfillment. The …