Review
Ok, this isn’t the Gang of Four of yore — but There’s still something to be said for getting drunk on cheap wine.
The enduring curse of the past is not a new subject; it is Obra’s compelling visuals that make it special.
Director and writer Damián Szifrón fills his tales with lethal ironies and jarring twists of fate that build with relentless momentum to resolutions that somehow manage to be both horrid and comical.
Looking deeply into things and, by no means least of all, into other human beings implies meditating on brevity, on ephemerality—and this is what Tone Škrjanec does in this book.
Glow is a witty, accessible, but at times overly ambitious journey through the world of exotic drugs, the chemistry of romance, and the insidious effects of globalization.
Celeste Oliva’s performance is so raw, we experience every doubt, every fear, and watch her confidence slowly evaporate under pressure.
Underground director Emile de Antonio saw films as “a way to make art out of political raw material.”
In some essential and large way, novelist Colm Tóibin gets Elizabeth Bishop right.
Minimalism doesn’t make narrative or emotional demands. It shows you a surface, and if there’s anything below the surface, you draw your own conclusions.
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