A Traveler’s Needs tells the story of a French woman Iris (played by wonderful Isabelle Huppert), who as the poster declares "...came from France (and)....with no money or means of supporting herself she is advised to teach French." She lives with an young artist whom she met suddenly in a neighborhood park.
Just like other Hong joints, this movie is not only structured like a poem which rhymes & repeats, but also about poem. Seoul is often said to be the…
There is no doubt of Idrissa’s cinematic mastery. His choreography of the image is exemplary: the movement of the performers in relation to each other, to the camera, and to the landscape elicits acting that is often remarkable for its combination of power and delicacy. The apparently unpicturesque Burkinabe landscape resonates with emotion and meaning, offering a salutary lesson to those filmmakers from these islands who allow the photogenic beauties of British or Irish locations to charm them into substituting…
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The protagonist in the movie is portrayed as having multiple layers, with his own rational explanations guiding his actions as opposed to the reasoning of others.He is not bothered by the mainstream definition of "normal", as qualities like freedom, expression are completely subjective to him.
For when Anjali suggests that ‘he would be happy once he is out of jail’, Raghavan, as calm and composed as he replies, “But I am not unhappy in jail”. Raghavan thus doesn’t believe in…
Wolfwalkers definitely takes some pointers from Princess Mononoke in its central conflict — a group of humans who set out to kill every wolf in the nearby woods — except the “nature vs. industry” conflict is used as an allegory for the Cromwellian ideal of taming the wild Irish lands and burning down traditions to replace them with English principles. As with Song of the Sea, the distinction between the city and the country informs the visual style as well.…
