Zhuo-Ning Su

[Venice Review] The Age of Shadows

Eyebrows were raised when it was announced that South Korea will submit the as-yet-unreleased espionage thriller The Age of Shadows for Oscar consideration inst...

[Venice Review] Frantz

One can accuse François Ozon of many things, but lack of ideas isn’t one of them. The prolific French auteur is a constant presence at A-list film festivals sin...

[Cannes Review] The Wailing

Since the early aughts, South Korea has been one of the most prolific and exciting exporters of genre cinema, giving us such indelible gems as Oldboy, The Host,...

[Cannes Review] The Dancer

Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, The Dancer is an impassioned if formally conservative portrait of Loïe Fuller (...

[Hamburg Review] The Demons

Part coming-of-age story, part familial drama, part psychological thriller and even carrying with it a whiff or two of supernatural horror, Canadian director Ph...

[Hamburg Review] Neon Bull

From Blue Is the Warmest Color to Stranger by the Lake, from Pride to The Danish Girl, movies dealing with LGBT issues or characters have become ever more prese...

Zhuo-Ning Su

Berlin-based freelance film journalist. Watches too many movies for his own good.