While the end result is important, Hùng’s film is all about savouring the moment, something that becomes more urgent as it progresses - although talk of speed has little place in a film that unfolds with the pace and beauty of a flower.
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.
A sad, mournful and bittersweet air pervades the entire film both in the shorts and the biographical segments, as if Tatsumi's success and clear artistic ability never allowed him to outrun certain doubts and worries.
Animation based on Yoshihiro Tatsumi's manga memoir A Drifting Life and other short stories.
A Teacher is not the most finely crafted film, but it is a cri de cœur.
A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker and his emotional support for one of his students.
Thrums from start to almost finish with the sweaty tension of a looming maths test.
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Thumbs up to director Julio Vincent Gambuto for capturing one aspect of Italianicity abroad in New York.
Young Marco is obsessed with playing video games and hardly leaves the house. But when his grandfather moves in, Marco’s life is turned upside-down and he’s forced...to go play outside. Nonno introduces him to bocce, leading Marco to round up a team of his own.
Despite the proud boasts at the end of the film, this couldn’t hope to survive peer review – and yet that’s not to say that the data itself isn’t interesting, or that the film has nothing to offer.
A documentary team connects with military personnel, scientists and even William Shatner in an attempt to re-capture, in real-time, the US Navy 'TicTac' UFOs, using state-of-the-art, military-grade equipment and technology.
The location is breathtaking, the period absorbing, the story heartwarming and the acting so fine you want to leap from your seat and shout something inappropriate, such as 'Encore!'
With impressively sourced archive footage, much of it in colour, the film presents a fair overview of its subject and finds time for laughs even in stories with tragic endings.
Drawing on coming book traditions rather than the animation styles associated with the TV series or previous big screen efforts, it makes for stunning viewing: fluid, inventive and full of character.
Teenage mutant turtles set out to try to become heroes so that people will like them, but may have bitten off more than they can chew with villainous fellow mutant Superfly.
When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.
The society it depicts is one in which ordinary people – and especially women – are crushed beneath the joint burdens of a medieval moral code, and an unfeeling bureaucratic enforcement process.
An insight into the society of underground Tehran.
A film about how our identities are shaped and how formative experiences shape our notions of normality.
Story of a twin who lost his memory after an accident and the brother who was his only link to his memories - and who faced ethical choices as a result.
Zoabi uses farcical comedy as his warm-hearted messenger, presenting his argument with a disarming hug and a surprising dash of romance.
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier, but trouble brews when soldier and the show's backers disagree about how the it should end.
Cumulatively, the episodic conversations paint a vivid picture of contemporary Iranian life and, especially, of the place of women in the post-revolutionary era.
Conversations in a car reveal many aspects of modern Iranian life, especially for women.
An unusually confident first film, stylishly shot in black and white, The Tenants may explore some familiar ideas but it is very much its own thing.
In a dystopian South Korean city, a soon-to-be-evicted tenant decides to complicate the process by renting his toilet out to an eccentric couple, but their strange behaviours soon become unbearable.
As Jackson Browne’s My Opening Farewell delivers a lyric about standing before a window, we get a shot of the boy standing before a window. Did Clooney make this in his sleep?
A young man gets taken under the wing of his bar-owning uncle.
Unfolding as a cunningly reflexive critique of the Italian giallo, as well as Dario Argento’s own distinct body of work, Tenebrae directly addresses the accusations of misogyny often hurled at the director.
A thriller writer goes on the hunt for a killer who claims to be taking inspiration from his latest book.
Whether you ultimately like the end result or not, you'll definitely feel something, even if it's only the booming bass of Richard King's sound design and Ludwig Göransson's score rattling your seat at key moments.
The characters are not unrealistically attached to their well-intentioned lies, and get into trouble in part because of the ease with which they give way to awkward compromises. As a result, they feel very human.
Absurdist comedy that sees a family try to cope after the patriarch dies with an erection that won't go away.
It's got some pretty dark moments, and some dark moments that are pretty.
The tales of two assassins carrying out a sinister mission, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress leading a dangerous double life.
Concerned with exploring what ordinary people might do in extremis, Terrestrial is one of those films that turns on a single line.
During a weekend reunion, a rising science fiction author welcomes three college friends to his home, but strange events begin to blur the lines between reality and imagination.
The message is clear - the world needs to pay much closer attention to what is happening in Brazil, before it's too late.
When a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and an uncontacted group living deep within the forest.
There's a nostalgia factor here that will attract some genre fans but others will find that the cramming together of so many tropes weakens the impact of any individual one.
After a 15-year-old is brutally beaten up by high school bullies, his wish for revenge unleashes the Terror of Halloween.
The fact that Michael Almereyda's playful biopic doesn't quite fire on all cylinders feels more like a tribute than a failing.
Highlighting the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology –including his own previous work – by pioneering a system of wireless energy that will change the world.
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