The San Sebastian Film Festival have their share of hits and misses, Border belonging to the latter, sadly. Intimate yet uncomfortable, it has its share of gross bathroom scenes like showing Su Qing (Feng Qi) there. She cleans herself before going out to the streets and meeting clients like coal miner Luo Jia (Zheyan Li). […]
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For better or for worse, Mikel Gurrea‘s Sants doesn’t care to introduce his film’s characters, but still, viewers get a jist of who they are, like protagonist Lali (Victoria Luengo). She cares for her dying mother, Gloria (Ariadna Gil), and she eventually gets help with that job. Help comes from her friend Rosario (Eulalia Ramón). […]
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Indonesian genre directing master Joko Anwar returns to Fantastic Fest with a horror comedy that takes some big swings, Ghost in the Cell. After reporter Dimas (Endy Arifan) comes back from an assignment where a number of suspicious murders have taken place, his boss dies under gruesome circumstances and he is jailed in the process. […]
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Chilean documentary filmmaker follows up The First Year with The Battle of Chile, all films bleeding into each other. He divides the latter film into three parts, the first showing enthusiasm turning into the real work of maintaining victories. He shows citizens putting up posters warning people of fascism, mourning people like Jose Ahumada Vasquez. […]
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Haru’s (Rinko Kikuchi) entire family showed up to her birthday party but she isn’t in the mood to celebrate. She’s still mourning the death of her late husband Luis (Alejandro Edda), who dies during one of their ballroom contests. Thankfully, her sisters Hiromi (YOU) and Yuki (Yoh Yoshida) get her out of her nice house. […]
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The threat comes from the best of intentions… Primetime is an insidious look under the hood at the genesis of ‘Newstainment’ as the quest for greatness comes at the cost of one’s very own soul. In 2006, To Catch a Predator (Robert Pattinson) host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. While heavily fictionalized, […]
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Things don’t always start out as you plan…. Moments of self-discovery are rarely if ever planned and that is so true here with filmmaker John Wilson now years removed from the success of his HBO show; How To With John Wilson. Here with the History of Concrete we see the portrait of a creator trying […]
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Every streaming service worth their salt has music documentaries in their catalogue and MUBI here is no exception. MUBI, despite being MUBI, has films that cater to my pop girlie present like a Charli XCX doc. But it also caters to the collective past of certain demographics who listen to independent international pop rock music. […]
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Richard’s (Jan Gunnar Røise) doctor wants to know why he wants a castration – he doesn’t say why. He’s not the only character in Cute who doesn’t want to take care of themselves in more conventional ways. That other person is Stella (Gina Jaqueline), caretaker for Richard’s old mother and who has an eating disorder. […]
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Astronomer George Galaz asks “Where do we come from, it’s a key question,” to Patricio Guzman. It’s one of the many rhetorical yet real questions to any field of study, Galaz doing so in the Atacama. The Atacama desert is also the location of two of the most painful moments in Chile’s violent recent history. […]
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