Ciao Ciao is focused on the malfunctions of China’s urbanist ideology, and how they are realised in the setting of uncertain personal lives.
The Assassin
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s THE ASSASSIN is incredible liminal wuxia told in ellipses: by steam and smoke
Ilo Ilo
ILO ILO is a quintessentially Singaporean film: in both its evocations of specifically localised and intricately detailed sensory impressions, and treatment of the intersections of socio-economic orders with interpersonal and interior experience.
Dancing in the Room
‘Dancing in the Room’ is the aesthetic daydream Peng Lei – to dismiss it as a film about self-conceived artists who don’t make art is to miss that the artwork is the content of the film itself