PAN’S LABYRINTH – The Tragic Beauty of Escapism

The difference between my childhood viewing of Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and my adult one is not just about time; it’s about what I can bear to see now. When I first saw it, I thought: Oh, Ofelia made it. She returned to her underground kingdom. Her death wasn’t in vain! It was the price of … Okumaya devam et PAN’S LABYRINTH – The Tragic Beauty of Escapism

FRANKENSTEIN: In the Anatomy of Fiction, a Gloomy Picture Wears a Brown Jacket

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025), evidently the strongest candidate to win the competition at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, brings to the forefront fundamental human elements such as pain, regret and hope in the human form, while simultaneously presenting the story of the most poetic outcast, one who navigates the limits of powerlessness, empathy and … Okumaya devam et FRANKENSTEIN: In the Anatomy of Fiction, a Gloomy Picture Wears a Brown Jacket

THE PIANO ACCIDENT: The Contingency of Self-Deception in a Post-Phantasmatic Desire

Beyond intersubjectivity, the latest film by French director Quentin Dupieux, who portrays his characters as obsessed with a certain object or entity in each of his films and while doing this criticizes the entire social structure through a single individual in the most linear way, contains elements of social alienation that progress through the character. … Okumaya devam et THE PIANO ACCIDENT: The Contingency of Self-Deception in a Post-Phantasmatic Desire

JULIE KEEPS QUIET – These Are Not Your Kind of Challengers

Julie Keeps Quiet (Julie zwijgt, 2024), which deals with the refutation of the notion of idealism through the concept of silence, objectifies the events that exist outside the individual by a method of concealing them. Leonardo Van Dijl gives his first feature film an inevitable yet well-founded subjectivity. Julie Keeps Quiet, which we watched as … Okumaya devam et JULIE KEEPS QUIET – These Are Not Your Kind of Challengers

LORCAN FINNEGAN talks to Dial M for Movie on his latest film THE SURFER, starring Nicolas Cage!

Lorcan Finnegan is one of the few directors that we do our best to follow their every project, and it’s not only because he casts many of our favourite actors and actresses in his movies: Niamh Algar (in Without Name), Jesse Eisenberg (Vivarium), Eva Green, Mark Strong (in Nocebo) and Nicolas Cage in this year’s … Okumaya devam et LORCAN FINNEGAN talks to Dial M for Movie on his latest film THE SURFER, starring Nicolas Cage!

THE GODFATHER Trilogy: Crime, Family and Politics

I’m going to be completely honest: when I first watched The Godfather (1972), it didn’t move me. I couldn’t understand the rules and logic of the Godfather universe, nothing seemed reasonable to me. Then I started taking notes, because I had to understand. I wasn’t going to let my pacifist brain get in the way … Okumaya devam et THE GODFATHER Trilogy: Crime, Family and Politics

Dark Hands in the Shadow of a City: HOLY SPIDER

In this review, we will be talking about the 2022 production Holy Spider, which has been very popular in the past months. Set in the holy city of Iran, Mashhad, the film was directed by Ali Abbasi, whom we know best from the 2018 film Border. Of course, we would like to add that Holy … Okumaya devam et Dark Hands in the Shadow of a City: HOLY SPIDER

BONES and ALL: Finding Oneself in the Battle of Survival

Luca Guadagnino, who gained a worldwide reputation with Call Me by Your Name (2017), worked with Timothée Chalamet this year again in Bones and All, just like he did in its predecessor which was the center of attention after its release. Turned into a script from American writer Camille DeAngelis's novel Bones & All which … Okumaya devam et BONES and ALL: Finding Oneself in the Battle of Survival

PIAFFE – Surrealism is my Body

When the existence of an abstract body built on the skin defined by dictionaries shares the same vital cell with its host, Ann Oren’s “Piaffe” (2022) opens many doors for concrete dreams, while hypnagogic images proceed in the manner of an intervention of a "chance of a surrealist order". Throughout the film, we breathe with … Okumaya devam et PIAFFE – Surrealism is my Body

ANATOMY of TIME [IFFR-11]

Anatomy of Time (2021), a movie written and directed by Thai director Jakrawal Nilthamrong, focuses on two different phases of a woman’s life, Meam, which is portrayed by Prapamonton Eiamchan (young Meam) and Thaveeratana Leelanuja (older Meam). During her youth, she spends time with her father who deeply cares about clocks and earns a living … Okumaya devam et ANATOMY of TIME [IFFR-11]