A sleepy, seaside Iranian town. A successful restaurant being run by four feisty, independent women. Everything is running smoothly until one womans lover gets arrested for anti-national activities, and anothers returns after being in prison for 25 years for the same charge, possibly to reclaim the house in which the restaurant is being run.
Aziz, a […]
[Note: No spoilers]
“If I could go back in time, I wouldn’t do it again. It’s not worth endangering your life for a movie.” - Hany Abu-Assad, Director.
Said and Khaled are two young men who work for a car repairman in the West Bank. There are few jobs, and they have little interest in the job […]
[Note: No spoilers]
For most part of Grain in Ear, I was considering walking out of the theatre. I’m glad I didn’t. Until a few minutes before the end, it is painful to watch as director Zhang Lu carefully constructs for us the life of a Korean minorty woman in China, whose husband is in jail […]
[Note: Spoilers, but it doesn’t matter]
The theater was empty and slowly filling up since, like me, most others were unable to get tickets for Rituparno Ghosh�s Dosar, and Sudipto Sen�s The Last Monk.
Spring, Summer… begins in spring, and we are introduced to a monk and his young ward, living on a monastary floating in a […]
Today was disappointing. I think I should now go through storylines before selecting films, though I’d hate killing the suspense. Sadly, Dosar was sold out by the time I reached, and I settled for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring Again, which was visually very appealing. Hardly a dialogue in the film. Unfortunately, it was Buddhist, […]
[Note: I went for this movie because I was told that a Stanley Kwan movie would at least be better than the last two that I had seen. Anyway, I didn’t want to give up on the Cinefan Film Fest after watching only the Indian films, which had given me a headache]
Stanley Kwan’s Everlasting Regret […]
YES! It could be you who gets stuck watching this film. It could also be you who walks out of the theatre twenty-thirty minutes into the film. Unfortunately, it was me who stayed for the entire length of the film, and me, who got a once-in-a-blue-moon headache while watching this disaster.
Taranjeet Singh, the director of […]
Anjan Das’ Faltu , which means ‘useless’ in Hindi, is a story that could have been told better. Adapted from Bengali author Syed Mustafa Siraj’s novel Ranirghater Brittanto, Faltu is set in rural Bengal, in a small village called Ranirght that has a population of 148, according to the census mentioned in the movie.
A visit […]
For those who don’t know, The 8th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival is on in Delhi. 10 days and lots of films at Rs.20/film, unless you have a press pass or complimentary passes.
Went today. Met Jai, his friend Shougat, Annie and bumped into Sushil right at the end. The last time I met Sushil was at […]
[Note: Spoilers in this review]
Lawrence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy [Google Books preview] was a difficult read, to say the least. It defied conventions of writing: probably the most frequently mentioned example is that a single black page in the book signifies the death of the parson, Yorick. Some chapters are just a short paragraph. The book […]
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