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Gabriel Mascaro's filmography embraces narrative perspectives that we rarely see on screen. His 2019 film Divine Love is a neon soaked dance experience that amplifies love and unity against…
Guan Hu’s Black Dog is set in 2008 when China is set to host the Olympic Games. In an effort to appear progressive to Western eyes, the Chinese government is focussing its attention on Beijing and cre…
Agnieszka Holland has always led a political life. She has witnessed the impact of multiple occupations and dictatorial regimes. She was present for the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. She is consider…
Portuguese cineaste Miguel Gomes’ latest film Grand Tour is an odyssey through Asia using a constructed narrative about a couple in 1918 who chase and elude each other through multiple countries. Gome…
Grand Tour poetically travels across space, time, and form to create a comedic melodrama of ethnographically sweeping proportions. Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes mixes the aesthetics of the early 2…
As I wait for my interview with filmmaker Payal Kapadia to commence, I hear the clouds cackle. And right on cue, on a warm summer evening in Sydney, it begins to rain. I smile, thinking that perhaps t…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. For this final chat in the series, Andrew catches up with pro…
In Green Border, director Agnieszka Holland turns a devastating lens on the European refugee crisis, crafting a grim and necessary experience that challenges not only our empathy but our understanding…
Trần Anh Hùng’s glorious The Taste of Things starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel is a beautiful belle epoque romance. An ode to happiness as an intricate recipe pared down to provide pleasure…
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…
Copa 71 screens at Perth Festival from Monday 20 - Sunday 26 November 2023 James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay’s energetic documentary Copa 71 is a routine sports tale of the underdogs (women’s footballe…
In a conversation with Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) gourmet Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) quotes Saint Augustin. “Happiness is desiring what you already have.” Trần Anh Hùng’s exquisite adaptation of…