Director – Ho Cheuk Tin – 2022 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 119m ** Confronted with a naked corpse, the residents of three separate flats in a tower block try to get shot of it before its discovery can reduce their apartments’ selling prices – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 21st […]
Director – Gaspar Noé – 2021 – France – Cert. 15 – 142m ***** An elderly man struggles to care for his ailing wife who has dementia – out in cinemas on Friday, May 13th Discounting the lengthy titles detailing among other things the various film clips and images used, this throws us a series […]
Director – Magnus von Horn – 2020 – Poland, Sweden – Cert. 15 – 106m **** An Instagram fitness celebrity struggles with the tension between constant self-promotion and everyday existence – on MUBI from Friday, September 17th This opens with Sylwia Zajac (Magdalena Kolesnik) leading a demanding workout with a crowd of dozens of her […]
Director – Chloé Zhao – 2020 – US – Cert. 12a – 107m ****1/2 A poor widow drives around the US in her van picking up casual work where she can get it, meeting and making friends with other vandwellers – on VoD, in cinemas from Monday, May 17th There’s a restlessness about Nomadland. In […]
Director – Norris Wong Yee-Lam – 2019 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 15+ – 91m ****1/2 A Prince Edward resident starts to question whether marrying her boyfriend as the couple have long planned is really such a good idea – online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2021 Easter from Wednesday, […]