Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
An inflatable sex doll spontaneously comes to life. When her owner heads out to work each day, Nozomi (Bae Doona) sneaks out herself. She meets the various people living in her neighbourhood. She finds herself a job at the local video library. She even tentatively begins a romance with a co-worker. Through her adventures, she ...
Two rival car manufacturers are in a race to release their new sports cars. When the Tiger company's test vehicle crashes, photographers paid for by the rival Yamato corporation are there to shoot the accident and leak it to the press. Soon afterwards it becomes clear that Yamato has somehow stolen the blueprints to Tiger's ...
Joo-ri (Kim Hye-jun) and Yoon-ah (Park Se-jin) are high school classmates who hate one another. Their acrimony only increases when Joo-ri's father and Yoon-ah's mother have an affair, resulting in Yoon-ah's mother Mi-hee (Kim So-jin) falling pregnant. While Mi-hee seems unable of treating her pregnancy seriously, Joo-ri's father Dae-won (Kim Yoon-seok) suffers a crisis of ...
On 19 July this year, the Dutch actor Rutger Hauer died. He had been one of my favourite actors for much of my life, ever since being entranced by his performance as the runaway fugitive Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner. Tributes and obituaries all cited Blade Runner as one of his most noted performances, as ...
Eunhee (Park Ji-hu) is a 14 year-old Korean girl living in a troubled household. Her parents fight too much, and her brother keeps violently bullying her. Soon it seems as if her only hope comes from the Chinese teacher from whom she is receiving special lessons. So far, so feel good. In truth, light plot ...
Written by Travis Johnson Capitalism ruins everything – that’s the message I took away from this Taiwanese slice-of-life drama from first time feature director, Chan Ching-lin*. It’s a message that seems to have resonated with the home crowd and the critical community of Taiwan; the TV movie, picking up five wins from 11 nominations at ...
Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) returns home to the Chinese city of Kaili, 10 years after he abandoned Kaizhen (Tang Wei). His return reminds him of his late friend Wildcat, and inspires him to find Kaizhen once more. Bi Gan made a big impact back in 2016 with his artful debut feature Kaili Blues. He returns to the ...
