Review: The Day is Done (2021)
For those acquainted with Zhang Dalei’s work, the faces seen in “Day is Done” will not only look familiar, but the connection to his debut “The Summer is Gone” will be immediately established.
March 2021
Review: The Men Who Wait (2021)
Truong Minh Quy’s Berlinale Shorts contender The Men Who Wait is a film about men seeking sexual contact on a slag heap that once belonged to a coal mine.
Review: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2021)
Wallace Stevens’ poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is being read integrally, in English, at the beginning of Ana Vaz’ newest experimental film-essay of the same title
Review: More Happiness (2021)
The conversation about love and happiness between mother and daughter, 1st and 2nd generation Chinese immigrants in the US, is at the centre of Livia Huang’s short film More Happiness that premieres at the Berlinale Shorts competition.
Berlinale review: Jack’s Ride (2021)
Part road movie, part character portrait, Jack’s Ride depends a great deal on the quiet charisma of its subject.
Berlinale review: Jesus Egon Christ (2021)
Drug addiction is not the topic of the film which shows curiosity to discover what’s hiding behind the mask of substance abuse.
