Tag: narrative film
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François Ozon slowly and meticulously reassembles Camus’ The Stranger to create one of the best adaptations put to screen. Albert Camus’ first novel, L’Etranger, is, by virtue of its philosophy, a tough one to adapt to screen. What is, in many ways, a celebration of fatalism, doesn’t quite gel with the neoliberal inevitability that has…
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In the concluding scene of Palestine 36, Afra (Wardi Eilabouni), a young Palestinian girl and a carrier of the knowledge of her culture, ancestors and the atrocities committed against them, walks barefoot through the stone streets of Jerusalem. This image, following the razing of Afra’s village, the torturing of her community, the destruction of her…
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Reading like an Ibsen play, but with the severity of occupation as a backdrop, Laila Abbas’ sophomore feature Thank You For Banking With Us!, nominated for Best Film at last year’s BFI London Film Festival, brings comedy and drama to an unenviable situation, but with morale and vitality for family life rather than nihilism. Thank…
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Opening this year’s London Korean Film Festival, Frosted Window marks another exquisitely constructed mosaic from writer-director Kim Jong-kwan. The Korean filmmaker shapes his new work through three separate stories set across different seasons (Autumn, Summer, and Winter) in the Seoul neighbourhood of Seochon, intertwining them into a meditative portrait of love, desire, and disillusionment. By arranging…
