Busan reviews
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Reviews‘Spirit World’: Busan Review
Eric Khoo’s whimsical tale of the afterlife stars Catherine Deneuve as a chain-smoking chanteuse and is set in Tokyo
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Reviews‘Yen And Ai-Lee’: Busan Review
Kimi Hsia Yu-chiao and Yang Kuei-mei impress in this striking black-and-white Taiwanese mother-daughter drama
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Reviews‘For Rana’: Busan Review
A circus motorcyclist in Iran is desperate to find a new heart for his ailing daughter
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Reviews‘Montages Of A Modern Motherhood’: Busan Review
A first-time mother comes under increasing pressure in this astute Hong Kong drama
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Reviews‘Waterdrop’: Busan Review
A bereaved teenager goes to extreme lengths to find a new family in this uneven Korean debut
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Reviews‘The Land Of Morning Calm’: Busan Review
The disappearance of a local fisherman sends ripples through his South Korean coastal community
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Reviews‘Mr K’: Busan Review
Crispin Glover finds himself trapped in the hotel from hell in this Kafka-esque surrealist comedy
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Reviews‘Abel’: Busan Review
The life of a Kazakh farmer unravels after the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Reviews‘The Height Of The Coconut Trees’: Busan Review
Cinematographer Du Jie makes his directorial debut with this enigmatic Japanese ghost story
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Reviews‘As The River Goes By’: Busan Review
Debut from China tracks the ripples of the past into present-day life in a small town
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Reviews‘Motherland’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza’s police thriller is inspired by a 2015 bloodbath in Mindanao
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Reviews‘To Kill A Mongolian Horse’: Busan Review
An Inner Mongolian herdsmen fights to keep hold of his heritage in this dramatisation of his life
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Reviews‘Regretfully At Dawn’: Busan Review
An elderly Thai ex-soldier helps his granddaughter towards a brighter future in Sivaroj Kongsakul’s contemplative drama
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Reviews‘Village Rockstars 2’: Busan Review
Rima Das returns to rural Assam to follow-up her 2017 docu-drama
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Reviews‘Tale Of The Land’: Busan Review
The ongoing battle for Indigenous lands in Borneo informs this slow-burn debut
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Reviews‘MA - Cry Of Silence’: Busan Review
A young textile worker in Myanmar struggles to find her voice against a backdrop of political unrest
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Reviews‘Kaneko’s Commissary’: Busan Review
Super Eight’s Ryuhei Maruyama stars in this ‘plodding’ prison drama from Japan
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Reviews‘Travesty’: Busan Review
A city cop finds himself cast adrift in this pointedly political Mongolian hostage thriller
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Reviews‘Uprising’: Busan Review
Busan opens with a sweeping Netflix period actioner co-written by Park Chan-wook
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Reviews‘Afternoons Of Solitude’: San Sebastian Review
Albert Serra’s immersive, unflinching documentary follows Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey