I had more fun than I was expecting from this, and I love that it’s clearly a passion project. While the narrative didn’t have quite the same level of unpredictability and precision pacing as Bong’s other films, it makes up for it with really superb characterisation and thematic layers that are both thought provoking in a way that would generate fun discussions. I was honestly just glad to be in another universe that Bong assembled, and it was a breath of fresh air to see more madcap (non-naturalistic and goofy) performances from across the cast.
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Floating Life 1996
Floating Life presents a series of intergenerational vignettes of members of one family from Hong Kong stretched across multiple countries. It is also notable for being the first Asian-Australian film, and I am surprised (and slightly dismayed) at how this film has faded into relative obscurity given the resurgence in interest in representation of Asian diasporic communities in the West. If you have access to Kanopy, you should definitely give this a watch.
The film is divided into multiple chapters,…
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Drive My Car 2021
Sydney Film Festival, State Theatre.
With quite possibly one of the most quietly impressive film adaptations in recent memory, Ryusuke Hamaguchi delivers with a life-affirming character study that explores the unknowable facets of the human condition. Hamaguchi’s strengths as a storyteller are on full display here, particularly his focus on complex human characters confronted with deep personal problems, whose behaviours and choices are not always fully knowable. There is a sense of ambiguity that permeates the characters throughout the film…
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