Writer-director Kim Bo-ra’s House of Hummingbird is a coming-of-age film of rare patience and clarity, imbuing the wandering existence of 14-year-old Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) and her 1994 Seoul environment with understated mood and a vivid sense […]
London Film Festival
Director: Terrence Malick London Film Festival 2019 review Though the metaphysical cinema of Terrence Malick has often suggested a God’s-eye view of the universe, the legendary director has rarely granted his own characters such a transcendent sense […]
What begins as a claustrophobic study of a restless shut-in’s daily solitude ultimately blooms into an absurdity-tinged story of courage and self-actualisation in the comical and compassionate Love Me Tender. As the socially stunted Seconda (Barbara Giordano) […]
Director: Kim Bo-ra London Film Festival 2019 review LFF highlight House of Hummingbird observes the understated journey of the young Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) as she wanders through 1994 Seoul with no defined path in mind, and the […]
Director: Alma Har’el London Film Festival 2019 review Opening with a brief parody of the Transformers films and protagonist Sam Witwicky’s grating overuse of the word “No,” Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy immediately foregrounds its function […]
Director: Pailin Wedel London Film Festival 2019 review Hope Frozen is a documentary defined by various forms of preservation. On the most explicit level, Pailin Wedel’s tender film tells the story of two-year-old Einz Naovaratpong, […]