Japan, 2017 Ironic Psychological Comedy Romance Drama (yes) Author Work Trailer This. This baby here has been the most tasteful, most perfectly shot, most intriguing, most lovely, but also the most mysterious and the most ungraspeable movie of all the JFF+ Festival 2021 Edition. It has been all this to the point that I don’t… Continue reading Tremble all You Want
Tag: Drama
Pot-pourri of Autumn 2020 movies
Emma (UK, 2020) – Romance, Comedy – Mainstream This is another nice example of the recent female directors make adaptions of classic novels trend that I wish never fades away. I honestly never read anything Jane Austen, and I committed the sin of disdaining her for believing her work being overly cheesy and languid. However,… Continue reading Pot-pourri of Autumn 2020 movies
Pot-pourri of summer 2020 movies
The Secret Garden I watched this one during my stay at the beach this August, at one evening I missed going to the theatre. Given that during my regular life I go there twice or three times a week, I had a kind of abstinence syndrome and was feeling blue because of some family thing… Continue reading Pot-pourri of summer 2020 movies
Zombi Child
France-Haiti, 2019 Drama/Horror Independent Trailer Zombi Child (yes, “zombi” without an “e”, since it’s French). I remember having read a text about this one some months ago, probably before the pandemic-related stuff, and while I didn’t remember anything concrete about it, it was an enough reason for me to try it out. Besides, the poster… Continue reading Zombi Child
Papicha
Today I watched a pearl: An movie from an Algerian filmmaker, Papicha (Young Free Woman). It was selected as a candidate for the Oscars as Best Foreign Movie (without official nomination) and got featured in Cannes last year. It just was released here last Friday, with almost flawless critiques. I couldn’t not see it, especially… Continue reading Papicha