There is nothing less 21st century than the 21st century itself because ‘we are still protesting the same shit’, except that we also sometimes don’t, for a simple reason that there are places where protesting shit isn’t just being ignored, but also damn dangerous even if it ‘only’ means that your uncle threatens to castrate you for being gay.
Moneyboys is screening at Cannes Film Festival
Fei (Kai Ko) comes from a place where his sexual orientation isn’t something one speaks about until mid-narrative, but where we first meet him is not the village he grew up in. In a long prologue to the plot, we see him walking through a door of an apartment where he is greeted by a young man by the name of Xiolai (Jc Lin) dressed in a spectacularly all-red attire. Fei is slightly insecure about how to behave, and for a moment,...
Moneyboys is screening at Cannes Film Festival
Fei (Kai Ko) comes from a place where his sexual orientation isn’t something one speaks about until mid-narrative, but where we first meet him is not the village he grew up in. In a long prologue to the plot, we see him walking through a door of an apartment where he is greeted by a young man by the name of Xiolai (Jc Lin) dressed in a spectacularly all-red attire. Fei is slightly insecure about how to behave, and for a moment,...
- 7/17/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Updated through 5/21 — with awards announcements.
As noted last week, with support from the 4+1 Film Festival, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Critics' Week with a free retrospective of some of the greatest films screened over the past 50 editions. What follows is a roundup of what the critics are saying about the films screening this year.
"Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation — created for $300 (£185) on his iMac out of old Super 8 videos and family photos — created a stir at Cannes in 2004 for its original visual language," begins Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian. "In his latest he returns to Tarnation's material: his rich but intensely difficult family life. At the heart of Walk Away Renée is a road trip he takes with his mother, Renée, from Houston to New York State, as he helps her transfer from one assisted-living facility to another. Renée, who received electric shock therapy from the age...
As noted last week, with support from the 4+1 Film Festival, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Critics' Week with a free retrospective of some of the greatest films screened over the past 50 editions. What follows is a roundup of what the critics are saying about the films screening this year.
"Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation — created for $300 (£185) on his iMac out of old Super 8 videos and family photos — created a stir at Cannes in 2004 for its original visual language," begins Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian. "In his latest he returns to Tarnation's material: his rich but intensely difficult family life. At the heart of Walk Away Renée is a road trip he takes with his mother, Renée, from Houston to New York State, as he helps her transfer from one assisted-living facility to another. Renée, who received electric shock therapy from the age...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
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