“Let me part tonight as his uncle, as before. Next time I come back here I’ll be a good actor” There is something fundamentally human about Yasujirō Ozu‘s films. Low-key, underplayed and melancholic, both Floating Weeds and the more famous Tokyo Story (1953) drill down into the personal nature of the protagonists but in such a subtle way that…
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Amour (2012)
“Things will go on, and then one day it will all be over. ” ‘Amour’, directed by Michael Haneke in 2012, is a French drama following the story of an elderly couple whose lives are turned upside down when one of them suffers from a debilitating stroke. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva play Georges and…
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
“Cary, let’s face it: you were ready for a love affair, but not for love.” ‘All That Heaven Allows’, directed by Douglas Sirk in 1955, is an American melodrama set in a small town in New England. Jane Wyman plays Cary Scott, an affluent widow who falls in love with her free-spirited gardener, Ron Kirby,…
Five (2003)
‘Five’, directed by Abbas Kiarostami in 2003, is an Iranian conceptual movie. The film contains no dialogue, no characters and no plot. Kiarostami sets a DV camera at five locations, each by the sea, and films for fifteen minutes. The camera is static so the only movement is of the landscape, animals and occasional humans…
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