Cinemascope

 Kiarostami’s meditation on what it means to be a child in an adult’s world, and in how behavioural dynamics of kids – demonstrable even by ...

 Made under the auspices of ‘Kanun’ (local parlance for the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults) – as were m...

 Banned upon its release and largely buried for next three decades, Kiarostami’s discursive, loosely structured and deceptively piercing ess...

The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | UK/Poland The Mother of All Lies | Asmae El Moudir | Morocco Occupied City | Steve McQueen | The Ne...

 It’s rare for a filmmaker to remain steadfastly committed to their politics or form or both over the entire stretch of their career, and to...

 Adam (Andrew Scott), the protagonist in Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers , is a man shaped, bound and defined by internalized trauma – on...

 As Todd Haynes’ May December opens, we see a warm social gathering, on a sunny day, at the charming house of Gracie (Julianne Moore), geni...

 In Living Bad – João Canijo’s riveting reverse shot to the magnificent Bad Living – the Portuguese filmmaker shifted his gaze from the wo...

 João Canijo’s Bad Living – which formed an ingeniously imagined and magnificently shaped diptych with Living Bad , where the two counterpo...

 Shot over 6 years (between 2014 and 2019), and condensed from a staggering 2600 hours of footage into an immersive and observational 3 ½ ho...

  Yannick , Quentin Dupieux’s sharp and subversive cultural satire – and one of two films that he made this year alongside the surrealist fa...

  Daaaaaalí! , one of two films that Quentin Dupieux made in 2023 – the stunning cultural satire  Yannick  being the other one – is neither ...

  Poor Things is possibly Lanthimos’ most unreservedly ambitious film to date – ribald, outré and gleefully grotesque – while also being si...

 Catherine Breillat proves with Last Summer that, even in her mid-70s, she hasn’t lost either her propensity or her appetite to defy norms ...

 In Pablo Larraín’s grisly, hyperbolic, farcical and pungently satirical horror-comedy El Conde , the despotic former Chilean dictator is bo...

 Vetrimaaran’s blistering Tamil film Viduthalai Part 1 – it was planned as a single work, but later decided for release in two parts – delv...

 The line between nonfiction and narrative filmmaking – and in turn between the supposed candour of the former and the inherent artifice in ...

 Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s extraordinary documentary The Mother of All Lies , through defiant remembrances, delivered a powerful ...

 French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker Lina Soualem’s delicately strung, lyrically shaped and deeply intimate diary film Bye Bye Tiberias , ...

 It’s perhaps neither coincidental nor surprising that in the two films from Pakistan that gained international acclaim in consecutive years...