Christina Yang

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Words of Love

Rudi Rosenberg's Words of Love (Quelques mots d'amour) begins with a familiar setup: a teenage girl becomes obsessed…

By Christina Yang
Cannes

Nagi Notes

Koji Fukada's Nagi Notes takes Oriza Hirata's 1994 play Tokyo Notes out of its museum setting and into…

By Christina Yang
Movie

The Blue Trail

In a near future eerily similar to our own, Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail (O Último Azul) follows the 77-year-old…

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Movie

Colours of Time

Though it carries the air of one, Colours of Time is not a film about art – or at…

By Christina Yang
Movie

Father Mother Sister Brother

Jim Jarmusch returns to estrangement and deadpan tension in Father Mother Sister Brother, an anthology of three stories about…

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Movie

Kim Novak’s Vertigo

Premiering in Venice the same year the actress was honoured with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Alexandre…

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Movie

La Grazia

Toni Servillo slips effortlessly into presidential tailoring in La Grazia, Paolo Sorrentino’s elegant, unexpectedly playful political drama. He plays…

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Twisted Yoga

There’s a moment early in Twisted Yoga where everything looks exactly right. Sunlight pours into a high-ceilinged studio,…

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Movie

Resurrection

In Resurrection, Bi Gan returns with a film that is at once an intoxicating reverie and an intellectual endurance…

By Christina Yang