Metro Australia – July 2019

Art as Resistance History and the Individual in Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces JAFARPANAHI’SLATESTWORKISCHARACTERISED BYEQUIVOCATIONANDE ...

FOCUSONASIAAND THE MIDDLE EAST The historyof cinemais one definedby the tension betweenpossibilityand constraint:constraint,beca ...

xxxx Whilethespectreofnationalauthoritarianism is presentunderthesurfaceof3 Faces, the moretangibleoppressionseenin thefilm is w ...

The film’s openingsceneis a decidedlylo-fiexception: a grainy,verticallyorientedmobile-phonerecordingby a teenagegirl in a cave ...

seem less clear: once Marziyehis discoveredalive and well, halfwayin, most of the tensionis suckedout of the narrative; the film ...

to a cinemaof freedomas is conceivable.Yet, amid so much possibility,he fails to make anythingof artisticmerit, and allowshis ob ...

Moving Forward in Circles Repetition and Reflection in Hong Sang-soo’s Grass THEFILMSOFHONGSANG-SOOARRIVEONTHESCENEATSUCHA RAPID ...

In a second-floorroom, a youngwomanpicks up her phonefrom a table and swipesat the screen,as though willingan expectedtext or ca ...

his debut,TheDaya PigFellintotheWell(1996),he has becomeincreasinglyaccustomedto attenuatedshot length.^1 The quintessentialHong ...

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never mobilebut fixed in place, his shots punctuated by blunt pans and zooms. The persistentsamenessmakesHong’sfilms hard to dif ...

devicefor Hong,actuallyrepresentsthe pivot point for anotherof his bisectednarratives,openingup spacefor a do-over:for Areumto n ...

Things to Come The Wandering Earth and Chinese Cinema’s Growing Predominance FRANTGWO’SLUCRATIVEFILMTHEWANDERINGEARTH– A FUTURE- ...

FOCUSONASIAAND THE MIDDLE EAST Wouldit surpriseyou to learn that the third-biggestfilm in the world so far this year grossedover ...

The filmraces throughits expositionwith all the ruthlessnessofthenewsreelinCitizenKane(Orson Welles,1941).Withinthe first three ...

(BruceWillis) blowshimselfup, therebysavingthe Earth while simultaneouslyresolvinga tricky Electra-complex-like crisis with his ...

xxxx Above, from top:Wang Lei; Peiqiang Australia’seconomicpatternshavechanged aswebecomemoreintertwinedwithChina’s economicgrow ...

The Meg(Jon Turteltaub,2018).Now, no-oneis going to claim this was a great film, but it grossedUS$153millionin China and over US ...

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Opposite: 2040 writer/directorandpresenterDamon Gameau All other images:Scenes from 2040 The 2019 documentary 2040 takesa small- ...