When I first watched The Souvenir, I thought I was watching a story. Very quickly, it shifted from a viewing experience into a space of mirroring and recognition. This text begins as a film analysis and gradually becomes a personal reckoning: an essay that tries to hold a formal reading of cinema and a subjective … Okumaya devam et SOUVENIR I & II – The Not-So-Quiet Aftermath: Trauma Bonds, False Love, and Cinema as Witness
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Pop passion in quotation marks – A review of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”
A commercial fairytale designed to hit you at extremes – you are either unbearably horny and obsessed with Jacob Elordi, or heartbroken, devastated, and borderline insane. Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” (2026) has nothing to do with Emily Brontë. This is not an adaptation, the quotation marks make that impossible to ignore, it’s a pop fantasy … Okumaya devam et Pop passion in quotation marks – A review of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”
POSSESSION: When Love Becomes an Entity
Directed by Andrzej Żuławski and written by Żuławski together with Frederic Tuten, Possession is a 1981 psychological horror drama set in Berlin, in a city already divided, surveilled, and internally fractured. The setting is not incidental. It functions as a structural extension of the film’s psychic landscape. A city split by walls and ideology becomes … Okumaya devam et POSSESSION: When Love Becomes an Entity
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