This socially realist film noir is the first film from Singapore to be awarded Golden Leopard at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival.
Category: Films
Ad Astra (2019)
An Oedipal disaster movie.
Groundhog Day (1993)
What would you do if you were stuck and live the same day over and over again?
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
“The Adam Sandler movie for people who don’t like Adam Sandler movies”
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Bicycle Thieves reminds the Hollywood viewer of the unpleasant reality outside the movie theatre.
Wit (2001)
“Nothing but a breath–a comma–separates life from life everlasting. It is very simple really. With the original punctuation restored, death is no longer something to act out on the stage, with exclamation points. It is a comma, a pause.”
The Song of Sparrows (2008)
The film has an authentic approach to the commonly held conflict between the moral rural and the virtueless urban.
And Your Mother Too (2001)
The film looks like it is obsessed with sex, but actually it is obsessed with death.
Miracle in Milan (1951)
Smile whatever happens.
The Banishment (2007)
“Love tolerates all, it believes all, it hopes all. Love bears all.”