Tagged: mood: enlightened
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Characters are crammed in an ordinary car and do ordinary things like thinking and chatting. There is silence. The purpose of their journey: locate the body of a murdered man in order to perform an autopsy. Have you given up already? Please, do not.
Brave (2012)
Brave is ultimately the story about a mother and a daughter. Brave is the story of families torn apart by pride.
Pearls of the Far East (2011)
We’re only halfway through 2012, but Cuong Ngo’s Pearls of the Far East is probably the most gorgeously shot film I’ve seen all year.
Tales of the Waria
Tales of the Waria showcases a snippet in the life of the third gender and tells the stories of three people who seem to be at a very interesting cultural and religious crossroad.
Take This Waltz
Take This Waltz presents a harsh look at unhappiness in relationships and how fleeting love can be.
Chang-rae Lee – Aloft
Chang-rae Lee’s prose is so lyrical, he could build grocery shopping up as the epicenter of a crisis in singularity, transform clipping toenails into an existential quandary, and make sorting the recycling a prophecy of something tragic in the Greek sense of the word.
Pariah (2011)
Alike knows who she is, but is trying to come to terms with it against her surroundings. Will she choose to be free and move on with her life?
