Director – Leos Carax – 2021 – France, US – Cert. 15 – 141m ****1/2 Musical conceived and composed by Sparks plays out as a very dark opera ending in tragedy – on MUBI from Friday, November 26th Although billed as a musical, this may actually be closer to opera given that even though it […]
Director – Jeon Go-woon – 2017 – South Korea – 106m ****1/2 The price has gone up. Yet again! A woman who wants nothing more from life than to be able to enjoy whisky and smoking enacts a radical plan to combat everyday inflation – on MUBI from Thursday, November 25th as part of their New South […]
Director – Kim Cho-hee – 2019 – South Korea – 95m **** When a film director she’s worked for over several years dies, his film producer has to rethink her life – currently streaming on MUBI as part of their New South Korean Cinema season Director Ji (Seo Sang-won), his fortysomething producer Lee Chan-sil (Kang […]
Director – Lee Je-Yong – 2016 – South Korea – 111m **** An elderly prostitute takes in the child of a woman in trouble with the law – on MUBI as part of their New South Korean Cinema season After visiting the doctor to discover, not entirely unexpectedly, that she has gonorrhea, elderly woman So-young […]
Director – Yoon Dan-bi – 2019 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 105m ***1/2 A father takes his teenage daughter and her younger brother to stay with their ageing grandfather for the Summer – plays on MUBI as part of their New South Korean Cinema season It’s the Summer, so dad (Yang Heung-joo) takes […]
Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2020 – Japan – 115m ****1/2 A Japanese businessman’s wife decides to help her husband after discovering he is passing inflammatory state secrets to the Americans – out on MUBI in the UK and Ireland on Wednesday, September 8th 1940, Kobe, Japan. British silk trader John Fitzgerald Drummond is arrested […]
Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2016 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 130m **** Currently on BFI Player as part of 21st Century Japan, MUBI as part of The Uncanny Universe of Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Eureka Video Dual Format BluRay/DVD. The following review originally appeared in Funimation UK. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new crime thriller Creepy draws […]
Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2019 – Japan – 120m **** As a Japanese TV journalist works with a Japanese camera crew in Uzbekistan, she meditates on her life and career – from the BFI London Film Festival 2019 and the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) 2019 – and from Wednesday, November 11th on […]
Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2013 – Japan – 29m **** A company director steals a woman worker’s name tag and she fights and kickboxes him and his people to get it back – currently on MUBI as part of The Uncanny Universe of Kiyoshi Kurosawa A young man (Emoto Tasuku) is president of the […]
Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2015 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 127m **** Currently on BFI Player (extended free trial offer here) as part of 21st Century Japan, MUBI as part of The Uncanny Universe of Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Eureka Video Dual Format BluRay/DVD. Review published in All The Anime. Loner Mizuki (Fukatsu Eri) […]