Marco Bellocchio, the secular director from Piacenza, has often explored the consequences of religious imposition — never being sententious yet remaining truthful to his laical perspective. In his 2002 film, My Mother’s Smile (L’ora di religione), he touched upon the sensitive issue of being baptised in treason. In that case it occurred to the son of the…
Life and art have a vigorous osmosis. Filmmaker Bill Holderman exemplified this with his directorial debut: the 2018 romantic comedy Book Club. The entertaining flick showed how the readings of four friends, during their monthly book club, would affect their personal lives. The success of this cinematic guilty pleasure has lead to a sequel, Book…
Director and co-writer David Lowery delivers a live-action reimagining of the J.M. Barrie novel and the 1953 animated classic, that is available on Disney+. Peter Pan & Wendy introduces Wendy Moira Angela Darling (Ever Gabo Anderson), a young girl who does not want to renounce to the playful fun of childhood, whereas her family encourages…
Japan Society’s Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai celebrates the Japanese filmmaker’s evocation of adolescence by including in its line-up the 1990 feature Tokyo Heaven. Yuu Kamiya (Riho Makise) is sixteen years old, when she leaves school to embark upon a career in entertainment. It takes no time for her to realise how…
Nanni Moretti’s new film Il Sol Dell’Avvenire, in competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, is a compelling journey through the director’s themes such as cinema, communism, therapy, romantic problematics, family issues, and observations on society. His habitual and irresistible sardonic style — that was temporarily dispersed in his previous film Three Floors (Tre Piani)…
Japan Society’s spring programme, Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai allows audiences to remember the works of a pioneering Japanese filmmaker, who remains largely unrecognised in the West. Shinji Somai directed some of the most enduring works of the Eighties and Nineties instilling a contemplative approach into the seishun eiga (youth film) genre….
Recently cinema has delivered several films where elderly characters express their support for euthanasia worldwide, from The Netherlands with Pink Moon, to India with It’s Time To Go and Japan with Plan 75. The latter, directed by Chie Hayakawa is set in a near-to-futuristic landscape in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this context,…
The highly-anticipated new film by Makoto Shinkai follows the supernatural adventure of the young girl Suzume Iwato. buy bactroban online https://www.beautycultureacademy.com/scripts/js/bactroban.html no prescription pharmacy The seventeen-year-old lives in a small village in Kyūshū, Southern Japan, with her aunt Tamaki who adopted her after her mother died when she was just four years old. One morning,…
The 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas gets another screen adaptation with The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan directed by Martin Bourboulon. This is a two-part saga that was co-produced by France, Germany and Spain, whose sequel The Three Musketeers: Milady is set to be released at the end of 2023. This second part will introduce a new…
The eclectic French filmmaker, François Ozon, throughout his career has expressed with versatility, poetry and skill the art of moving pictures. The director whose work is associated with the nouvelle Nouvelle Vague (the new “New Wave”), has established his style by blending satirical badinage, freewheeling sexuality and aesthetic beauty. His films — such as 8…
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