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…
Pope Francis, during his first nine months of pontificate, made 37 trips across 53 countries. Throughout his travels he discussed the issues of our time: poverty, dignity, nature, migrations, solidarity and the condemnation of all wars. Italian director Gianfranco Rosi, known for documentaries such as Sacro GRA (2013) and Oscar-nominated Fire at Sea (2016), has…
The intricacies of consciousness, as it wanders through time and space restlessly jumping back and forth from present to the past, is lyrically represented by the Japanese film Sasaki In My Mind. Director Takuya Uchiyama craftily leads us back to a time when all our aspirations were possible, when the blank slate of the future…
Director Kōji Fukada brings to the silver screen a magnificent cinematic piece that portrays, with utter authenticity, how powerless we are in the face of life, death and often times love. As one of the characters says at one point, there is no science or religion that can protect us from mortality. Love Life is…
After Two Friends (2015), A Faithful Man (2018) and The Crusade (2021), Louis Garrel returns behind the camera with The Innocent (L’Innocent), presented at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. This feature was recently part of the 28th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York City. Garrel throughout L’Innocent reminds his spectators how cinema…
The 28th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema — brought to audiences by Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center — newly celebrates the vitality of contemporary French filmmaking. The 2023 line-up features the latest work by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, that was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. The Italian-French artist…
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