The fear of disappointment and entrapment, the longing for truth and direction, the irrepressible ordeal of coping with loss and detachment, the power of the past and the persistence of memory, the tenacious plight to set things right. Collectively,
Searching for truth can often entail crossing treacherous thresholds, breaching entrenched norms and compromising enforced loyalties. It is a predicament made all the more formidable when you find yourself caught between two worlds. Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is a young
Few road trips are as volatile, chaotic and freakishly comical as Jean-Luc Godard’s iconoclastic 1967 epic Weekend. A bourgeois and murderous married couple, Roland (Jean Yanne) and Corinne (Mireille Darc), venture by car through the French countryside. Their destination: Corinne’s
Commenting on modern film, the Russian writer and director Andrei Tarkovsky observed that ‘time becomes the basis of bases in cinema, like sound in music, like colour in painting’. What better way to ring in the new year than with
One fable can generate two contrasting films. We Can Remember it for You Wholesale, Philip K. Dick’s 1966 short story on synthetic memories, secret agents and interplanetary wars, was adapted for the screen by Paul Verhoeven in 1990’s Total Recall,