Film Reviews
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Mustang
October 13, 2022
Beach, sunshine, white shirts, laughter, summer breeze - those words instantaneously remind me of the start of one’s adolescence, as the prelude of an exciting journey of life is about to unfold. However, for the girls living in a remote Turkish village, the imageries resemble the start of their nightmare…
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Sakuran
October 13, 2022
In downtown Tokyo where modern buildings and malls stand right now, the land used to be home to the life of luxury and dissipation hundreds of years ago. During the 17th century, in the narrow alleys of the city, there stood dozens of hamanachis, one beside another. As nights fell…
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A One and a Two
October 13, 2022
“If your entire life was a film, which one would it be?” Edward Yang’s A One and a Two reminded me of such a prompt, as it depicted life of four generations in a casual way, with the most unnecessary details that compose our everyday life. It starts with a…
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