カテゴリー: World cinema
Cannes film festivalPayal Kapadia’s glorious Cannes competition selection is an absorbing story of three nurses that is full of humanityThere is a freshness and emotional clarity in Payal Kapadia’s Cannes competition selection, an enriching humanity an…
Saim Sadiq’s film explores the unsettled social and sexual identities of a widower and his children with delicacy and tendernessThe right way to feel love, and the right way to feel part of a family, are the insoluble difficulties at the heart of this …
The Indian director was as surprised as anyone that his astonishingly larger than life, logic-defying action film has found a huge global audience. So is Hollywood on the horizon?Looking at the box-office numbers when RRR first opened in the US in Marc…
The struggles and triumphs of a 1950s Kolkata family whose highest earner is a woman is told with marvellous lucidity in an optimistic masterpieceSatyajit Ray’s magnificent movie from 1963 is now rereleased as part of a Ray retrospective at London’s BF…
Narendra Modi joins in mourning for much-loved star of southern Indian cinemaPuneeth Rajkumar, a leading star of southern Indian regional cinema, has died after a heart attack. He was 46.Rajkumar had performed lead roles in 29 movies and also appeared …
Balan excels as a resolute forest officer battling sexism and corruption, as well as nature, in the latest satirical thriller from Newton director Amit V MasurkarAfter the success of his 2017 political black comedy Newton, director Amit V Masurkar once…
The re-release of Mira Nair’s unflinching 1988 story of street children, prostitutes and drug dealers shows it has lost none of its powerMira Nair’s Salaam Bombay! from 1988 was developed through journalistic research into the street children of Mumbai…
Movie about an affair between a woman and an older man aims to challenge stereotype of Afghan women as weak and repressedThere are few pavements in Kabul, so when Shahrbanoo Sadat steps out for her daily walk, she shares the roads with cars and tanks. …
French documentarian Thomas Balmès checks in with the Himalayan monk he filmed back in 2013 to find him addicted to online romanceIn 2013, French documentary-maker Thomas Balmès made a film called Happiness, about an eight-year-old monk called Peyangki…
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…
A son hunts for his mother after her unexplained return to her home town in this intriguingly inventive horror story The dialogue is a bit stilted sometimes, and, once all the wrapping is off, the big reveal is slightly silly, but this rare instance of…