As far as directors go, it doesn’t get much more middle-of-the-road than Tom Hooper. His films tend to feature clear-cut, identifiable conflicts sketched out in...
Seeing that the film starts in the middle of a memorial service, it doesn’t qualify as a spoiler to reveal that the unseen hero of L’attesa (The Wait) - the sub...
The recipient of this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, I said in my review, "French veteran Jacques Audiard's Dheepan is a muscularly directed...
We talk with the Best Director winner about the extended gap between features, how and why his picture differs from many a wuxia entry, and more about his masterpiece....
Until losing its cool in the third act and ending on a relatively soft note, French veteran Jacques Audiard's Dheepan is a muscularly directed dramatic thriller...
The Cannes Film Festival represents the pantheon of arthouse cinema, so it does raise eyebrows when a wuxia movie is included in its official selection. After a...
Festival programming is more often than not fraught with ulterior considerations. Which is why so much is being read into symbolic placements such as the openin...
