Nadine Labaki’s heartwarming film Capernaum, which means chaos, points out the sufferings and agonies of destitute and refugee children in the present day’s Lebanon. The injustice to the children is happening not only in Lebanon but all over the world. Their parents bring them to this world but without shouldering any responsibility. Their lives do …
Alfonso Cuarón pays a heart-warming tribute to his childhood nanny Libo Rodriguez through his intensely personal masterly woven black and white film Roma. It is set at the backdrop of Colonia Roma in Mexico City in 1970-1971 and portrays a part of Cuarón’s childhood. Roma is built on the shared memories of both Cuarón and …
Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage brilliantly captures Colombia’s Wayuu people and their culture. Guerra mesmerized viewers with his previous film Embrace of the Serpent. This time too he mesmerizes the viewers with his well-researched and contemplated film Birds of Passage. He along with co-director and his ex-wife Cristina Gallego entered the arena of Wayuu people …
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 …