First Contact: Rape, Retribution and Colonial Logic in Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest
It may present itself as a gentle comedy of manners, but Days and Nights in the Forest is a deeply confronting film once you peel the layers.…
Cannes Film Festival
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Óliver Laxe & Kanding Ray on the sonic tension of Sirāt
In the following interviews, Nadine Whitney talks to director Óliver Laxe about the landscape and use of music in the film, while in the second interview, Andrew F Peirce talks to composer Kanding Ray about building that sonic profile for the film.…
Sydney Film Festival Interview: Cannes Palme d’Or winner Jafar Panahi
One of the most powerful moments at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — and perhaps in its history — came when Iranian director Jafar Panahi learned he had won the Palme d’Or. As jury president Juliett…
Perfect Days is a Late-Career Masterwork from Wim Wenders
Koji Yakusho plays Hirayama in Wim Wenders Perfect Days, a quiet man who lives a life in solitude, working with great pride as a public toilet cleaner. We meet him as he starts his daily routine where…
Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall Scrutinises the Impossibility of a Single Truth
Beginning his final statement to the court in the trial of his mother Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) for the murder of her husband and his father, twelve-year-old Daniel Maleski (Milo Machado Graner) s…
Dogman Review
For the dog lovers out there, we’re used to watching films where dogs are part of the main plot, and inevitably, one of the dogs dies to create some kind of empathetic moment. Fortunately, with Matteo…
Dheepan Review
Jacques Audiard’s seventh film, Dheepan, could possibly be his most important film. Focusing on one of the most contentious issues in the world today – refugees and war enforced migration – Dheepan is…