The speed at which the sakura blossom petals fall... Five centimeters per second.
Nostalgia glasses off (I used to love this film when I was younger), it's hard to overlook just how dull this one feels. The characters never quite evolve beyond their initial development, and much of the film meanders aimlessly from one scene to the next. Ironically, much like the messaging of the film itself, characters come and go—but unlike Takaki, you don’t spend much time reflecting on…
The Drummer: Who's that chick?
Fred: Cinderella.
The Drummer: Well, your Cinderella's got a pistol this big in her bag.
Fred: It's her magic wand.
A stylish, frenetic film that leads us from the famous streets of Paris into its subterranean metro. Things kick into high gear (literally) from the very first scene, throwing us headfirst into Fred's wild experience of the Parisian subway.
The overall atmosphere is best described as dreamlike—the kind of experience you try to piece together…
But if you pay attention... nothing is trivial.
Entrancing, atmospheric and tense - this is a film that pulls you into its world from the opening scene and doesn't let you go until the final frame.
Ang Lee takes the original story by Eileen Chang and crafts an utterly enthralling and uncomfortable tale that sat with me for a long time after I watched it. It's hard to understate how good the direction is here. Each detail flows with purpose…
Find me if you love me.
This is a tight, short film by Lou Ye that really makes the most of what it has to deliver a poignant journey into turn of the millenium Shanghai.
This is the city as you might not have seen it before. It's dark. It's gritty. This is a city grappling with the teething pains of economic development as it grows into the metropolis we know today. It's here we find our cast eking out…
