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Unfriended 2014
New age and all but what got me more interested was something else. What's mise-en-scene in a film playing out entirely on a laptop screen? It's fascinating contrasting the compositions of a usual film with those of a film like this. The usual mise-en-scene cues directing our attention to various points on the frame are missing and so are the zoom-ins, cuts to close shots and diegetic sounds functioning similarly. What guides our attention to what we are supposed to…
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! 2015
Sticks to the basics and comes out a winner! Didn't know Dibakar Banerjee had a knack for genre filmmaking. Banerjee's style takes centre-stage over his writing here. So, we get some truly evocative low-key lighting scheme with gorgeous shadow plays, an elaborate production design, stunning cinematography with fascinating use of low-angle shots, economical deep-space compositions and effective shots-reverse shots, and all of these choices serve to bring out the noirish, mystery quality of the story, whose narration, like that of…
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Ship of Theseus 2012
A film with mouthpieces for the director's precious ideas rather than characters capable of existing outside the film's realm, gimmicky visuals for the sake of arthouse posturing rather than images in service of emotional coherency, a world (characters, beliefs, existence) reduced to conceptual terms rather than a lived-in, fully realized world. And this, for a film that wants to root itself in real, everyday life.
The 'big' philosophical ideas that Gandhi cherishes so much, instead of arising organically out of…
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Pola X 1999
The sharp contrast between the earlier idyllic portions and the latter dark, unsettling portions is reminiscent of the thin line that separates dreams and nightmares. There is some sort of stylistic departure from Carax's other films but this is very much a film by Leos Carax.
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