The horrors at the core of Maïmouna Doucouré has a remarkable grasp of the irrationality and volatility of middle-school social dynamics.Amy (Fathia Youssouf) is the daughter of Senegalese immigrants living in Paris, and her teenage angst kicks in hard when she overhears her mother, Mariam (Maïmouna Gueye), tearfully discussing with her aunt (Mbissine Thérèse Diop) that the girl’s father will be returning from Senegal with a second wife. Or, rather, he blasted the 1980s specifically for its return to a 1950s-reminiscent moral and political agenda. It was beautifully shot, with generally good acting, set in a country full of stories we in the western world know little of.
Mulan’s story is even more ripe for a serious take than most Disney franchises, considering that much of it is made up of violent, wartime battles between the Emperor of China’s imperial army and nomadic invaders from the north (today’s Mongolia). Was this review helpful? 1 out of 1 found this helpful. Perhaps to emphasize the fact that these are people who would easily blend into the city's gritty atmosphere and would therefore be eventually inconspicuous, the characters of Cyclo, Tran Anh Hung's foray into Saigon's seedy underworld, have no name.
In Cyclo, the poet is a child that cannot be accepted by his father. After a curious introduction where we see the stern-seeming writer eating dinner with his family and admonishing his daughter, a published poet, that “writing poetry doesn’t mean living a poetic life,” Jia Pingwa recalls the dark days of the Cultural Revolution. The film reminds me a lot of the work of Tsai Ming-Liang, one of my favorite modern directors. Was this review helpful? But all of that comes at the expense of most of the things that make other Mulan adaptations actually engaging on the level of character and story. The camerawork, composition, acting and plot(s) are all absolutely exceptional, the (Vietnamese) cultural aspects about family (father-mother-child) are omni-present (mentioned by redanit, also "the egg"); HCMC is a really captivating,noisy and ugly city in this movie, but Tran Anh Hung also shows the "other side" of Vietnam in his new one, "À la verticale de l'été", again on family and relation. In Vietnam, a cyclo is both the driver of a bicycle taxi and a name given to the taxi itself. There’s a nice and somewhat off-the-cuff moment when her Beijing-raised teenaged son talks about the passage of time and revisiting the rural landscape of his family’s past through “my ma’s book.” But by the time Taking a quieter and less barbed approach to addressing the state of modern China than fans of his work are likely used to from such politically pointed dramas as The film employs imaginative twists to illuminate the racism that’s entrenched in American history and society.The film’s second part trots along as a portrait of a likable, if unexciting, woman palling around with her sassy best friend (Gabourey Sidibe) and a colleague (Lily Cowles). But The film’s experiential approach emphasizes that the fragments of life it captures aren’t impersonal events on a timeline.Gianfranco Rosi’s documentaries, though they take on topics of great socio-political import, eschew virtually all of these conventions and thus demand a different kind of engagement—one rooted in empathy for the experiences of his essentially anonymous human subjects. It ends with the cyclo driver, still contemplating the memory of his father, driving his grandfather and his two sisters through a crowded road of Ho Chi Minh City.
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Their poor but peaceful lives are jeopardized when the cyclo is stolen by a gang, so with no other way of making money, the cyclo driver joins a criminal organisation, under the supervision of a brooding gang leader, who is also a poet (Tony Leung Chiu Wai). When the bicycle is stolen, he has to work for a gang of criminals to repay it. A handful of one-sided phone conversations establish that, somehow, the Kremlin has found out about the demonstration before the officials on the ground, which only exacerbates the local party members’ panic in trying to quash the uprising.It’s in its depiction of the party’s response to the protest that Adding to the woman’s faltering faith is her witnessing of the subsequent army crackdown on the protests, in which two dozen people are killed and many more arrested and secreted away by the K.G.B. Film Review: Cyclo. was heard from an old member, "great!" 2 out of 4 found this helpful. Beneath its show of smoke and mirrors, mercenary babes, and treacherous holograms, It seems fitting that it took stumbling upon an obscure Soviet-era concept for me to feel like I had the vocabulary to talk about Paul Verhoeven with any degree of accuracy. Kea’s obvious function as a much-needed, father figure for Chakra is starkly contrasted with the sadism of the ship’s captain, Rom Ran (Thanawut Kasro), who also takes the boy under his wing but only as a means of taking advantage of his youth and malleability in order to mold him into a future slaver.Rathjen admirably sidesteps the mawkish trappings that often accompany such tragic subject matter, with a very minimal use of music and mostly subdued performances, preventing the film from ever veering into rote melodrama. But the use of colours that somehow seem to move the soul can only be asian. Cyclo introduce us to the though reality of life. Listen: Dua Lipa Elevates “Levitating” with Help from Madonna and Missy ElliottReview: Billie Eilish’s “My Future” Is an Unexpectedly Upbeat Tribute to IsolationPiñeiro’s latest unfolds at times like a Hollis Frampton-esque image association game.Revolving around two casual acquaintances in the Buenos Aires DIY theater scene, Mariel (María Villar) and Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), This poetic assessment comes courtesy of an opening monologue—the first of many in the film—given by an off-screen narrator about the philosophical dimensions of doubt and inaction, qualities the narrator links to the color purple based on a shared sense of liminality. In Cyclo, the young man, who earns his living and supports his family by driving a rental cyclo (bicycle-taxi), is a child without parents.