カテゴリー: Drama films
Arush Nand is very good as a gay Tamil boy in Deepa Mehta’s coming-of-age drama set in a period building to civil war There is something a bit soapy and melodramatic about this queer coming-of-age drama from Sri Lanka, picked up by Ava DuVernay’s compa…
Carlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity’ Sri Lankan elephant’s confrontation with deathCarlos Casas’s Cemetery arrives on the arthouse streaming service Mubi, a slow sensory film wi…
Years of adherence to stringent rules leave a performer at odds with modern society in this melancholy film from Chaitanya Tamhane, India’s first Venice competitor for two decadesChaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple comes boldly billed as the first Indian …
Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana star in Shoojit Sircar’s puzzling tale of class and property management The first big Indian release of 2020 to divert towards streaming is an offbeam, strangely mismanaged parable about property management that …
Ahvin Kumar, director of No Fathers in Kashmir, says it shows the plight of families and people in Britain must not ignore their sufferingA controversial film highlighting “disappearances” in Kashmir that premieres in Britain this week has led to fears…
New Amazon and Netflix dramas take in themes that India’s established cinema rarely touches, with millions of potential subscribers available ‘The three big ‘no’s in Indian cinema are sexuality, religion and politics,” says Anurag Kashyap. “And in Sacr…