Another moving film from master director Ang Lee that deals with the the moral ambiguity of participation in the American war machine and the role of the cinema and the cinematic in perpetuating it.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What initially appears as a deeply cynical perspective on love seems to use the seductiveness of images of passion to develop a profound cinematic critique of romance.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Being forced to live a life without grace, through our own choices or otherwise is not only a generic human experience, but one that takes specific forms according to the culture and society within which it occurs.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hong Sang-soo's 17th feature film explores the entangled relationship between one's disposition, the external environment, and serendipity.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A light-hearted comedy that conceals the most thorough exploration of the role that cinema's dreams have in life by one of America's greatest directors.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A film comprised of several short films that evoke the themes and characters of the Golden Age of Hollywood, the Coen brothers' latest film looks at the complex way in which cinema is implicated in the formation of social and political change.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hong Sang-soo's latest film explores the complexity of our experience of time and of the strange temporality of provisionality that is pervasive in today's era of globalisation of culture and language.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx