BERLINALE – Marysia Nikitiuk’s ‘When the Trees Fall’ (‘Koly Padayut Dereva’)
Ukrainian first-time feature director Marysa Nikitiuk’s When the Trees Fall is a fairytale of gasping, screaming excess, where narrative is…
Narrative
BERLINALE – The Debt of a Mother’s Love: On Yang Mingming’s ‘Girls Always Happy’
To be a woman is to be in a world that understands you as other; the mere act of being…
On Andrey Zvyagintsev’s ‘Loveless’ and the casual cruelty of modern love
If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, the women of Loveless make clear how, for scorned women, the…
A Hard, Uncomfortable and Poetic Film About the Survival of People: On ‘Mudbound’
In his novel, Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner writes: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Born…