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Burning (2018) ‘NYFF’ Review: About Rage, Love & Class Conflict

Nafees Ahmed — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 10:29:46 +0000

Burning with class conflict, rage, and sexual longing in Modern South Korea Society Burning (2018) ‘NYFF’ Review: Every person has secrets buried deep down inside them, well guarded and protected, which in turn makes them mysterious. This mysterious aura, sometimes obvious, loud, and sometimes subtle, is fascinating and intriguing. It creates an independent and uncommunicative…

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A Family Tour [2018]- ‘NYFF’ Review

Nafees Ahmed — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:34:38 +0000

‘A Family Tour’ is a lamenting outcry for injustice. It’s a subtle but a bold political statement against the authority stifling the freedom of expression. A reporter asks Yang Shu (Gong Zhe) whether she is a HongKonger or a Chinese. To which, without a slight hesitation or twitch in the eyes, she says, “I’m a…

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Western [2017]: ‘NYFF’ Review

Shikhar Verma — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 05:57:16 +0000

Western [2017]: ‘NYFF’ Capsule Review Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann) who plays the protagonist in Valeska Grisebach’s slow-burning clash of male testosterone & cultural ideologies, resembles the mustached, stoic main-man in most Sergio Leone films. Riffling its title to encompass a varied number of juggling themes, genre and a sidelined border that still prevails in contemporary Europe, Grisebach’s…

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