By David Pountain Directed by Pepe Diokno At its heart, Pepe Diokno’s Above the Clouds is a single journey of thought expressed through a slow immersion into nature. Opening with the tragic death of the […]
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By David Pountain Directed by Angga Dwimas Sasongko It takes a lot of sincerity to treat a subject as commonplace and low-stakes as coffee-making as a source of straight-faced, emotionally loaded drama. It takes some […]
By David Pountain Directed by Riri Riza Sokola rimba (aka The Jungle School), the latest feature from Indonesian director Riri Riza, is a film that sits comfortably in the long-running genre of the townie-meets-native film, a […]
By David  Pountain Directed by Jia Zhangke London Film Festival review Ever since the Chinese auteur’s poignant and delightfully lo-fi 1997 debut Xiao Wu (aka Pickpocket), Jia Zhangke’s narrative features have been operating on a […]
By David Pountain Directed by Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya London Film Festival review While the basic premise of Very Big Shot could be described, if somewhat crudely, as Argo with drug dealers and indie filmmakers instead […]
By David Pountain Directed by Hong Sang-soo London Film Festival review While the virtual rewind that occurs at the halfway point of Right Now, Wrong Then places Hong Sang-soo’s latest as one of the acclaimed […]