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Reading Lolita in Tehran 2024
A film that has a western narrative with a feminist gaze. It may be recalled that some of the films of Abbas Kisrostami, Jafar Panahi, Mohammed Rasoulof have a dimension of anti-establishment narrative and artistic depiction of internal struggles of Iranians- both men and women against the repressive policies and measures of the Government there. Alas! Reading Lolita in Tehran suffers from a bias of geo- politics of America and other western powers. But the film is well- made. Golshifteh Farhani shines in her acting...
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Diego Maradona 2019
Centred mainly around Diego Maradona's stint with the Italy's SSC Napoli Club based in Naples, this docu film touches upon his childhood, teenage, iconic and the downfall stages of his life. Asif Kapadia depicts his personality through white, grey and black shades. The film has retro music and the tempo is akin to the football sequences shown therein. Maradona's feet created poetry on football field. The film captures the pinnacle moments of Maradona's magic....
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Thangalaan 2024
Thangalaan has all the features of a Pa Ranjit film. It has Dalit assertion, aesthetics, raw energy, magical realism, mysticism among others. But for me, the emotional quotient was missing and the film did not hit me hard and rattle me. Vfx struck a jarring note. The filming is done well.
Does the film looses itself in finely crafted frames? Whether some silence should have been there to internalise some of the socio- cultural dimensions of this film? These were…
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Kishkindha Kaandam 2024
Since some years, Malayalam filmdom has been offering some thoughtful films having a different storyline. This is one such film having mystery writ large on it. A sophomore attempt of the director Dinjith Ayyathan, this layered film deals with a family of three, an ex- army officer Appu Pillai, his second son Ajay Chandran and his second wife Aparna, residing in a forested area close to the reserve forest.
According to me, besides other characters, the old mansion where the…
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