Busan reviews – Page 4
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‘A Place Called Silence’: Busan Review
Silence and secrets wield a devasating power in Sam Quah’s twisting thriller
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‘No End’: Busan Review
Jafar Panahi collaborator Nader Saeivar’s second feature explores the manipulative nature of Iran’s police state
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‘a Wild Roomer’: Busan Review
A 30-something drifter attempts to find meaning in Lee Jeong-hong’s overlong feature debut
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‘Ajoomma’: Busan Review
A Singapore woman finds a new lease of life while on holiday in South Korea
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‘Memento Mori: Earth’: Busan Review
A young Vietnamese woman confronts impending death in Marcus Manh Cuong Vu’s delicate debut
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‘Blue Again’: Busan Review
A Thai student is torn between her fashion studies and her family’s indigo business in Thapanee Loosuwan’s unwieldy debut
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‘Six Characters’: Busan Review
A visually opulent, dutiful adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 play ’Six Characters in Search of an Author’
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‘Thousand And One Nights’: Busan Review
Two women adjust to life after their husbands go missing in Japanese director Nao Kubota’s return to the big screen
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‘Scent Of Wind’: Busan Review
Busan opens with this update on the ‘Good Samaritan’ story set in remotest Iran and written and directed by Hadi Mohaghegh
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‘Autobiography’: Busan Review
Former critic Makbul Mubarak makes an impressive feature debut with this Indonesia-set tale of power and corruption
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‘Tora’s Husband’: Busan Review
Rima Das’ intimate drama shows a family man’s life unravelling in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
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‘Zwigato’: Busan Review
Kapil Sharma switches register to play a family man struggling with India’s gig economy in the latest from Nandita Das
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‘Anita’: Busan Review (Closing Film)
Louise Wong plays Cantopop superstar Anita Mui in this nostalgic biopic
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‘Farewell, My Hometown’: Busan Review
Three generations of Chinese women talk about their lives in Er Zhuo Wang’s fiction-documentary hybrid
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‘24’: Busan Review
Royston Tan’s latest art-house charmer follows a sound engineer on a journey across 24 different environments
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‘Gensan Punch’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza’s latest follows an aspiring boxer who refuses to let disability define him
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‘Memoryland’: Busan Review
Kim Quy Bui’s beautifully composed sophomore feature explores attitudes about death in Vietnam
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‘House Of Time’: Busan Review
Covid-inspired, ’Groundhog Day’-style supernatural drama finds a doctor trapped in a house with three generations of women
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‘The Apartment With Two Women’: Busan Review
Kim Se-in’s unflinching debut chronicles a mother and daughter at war
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‘Pedro’: Busan Review
Natesh Hegde’s ruminative character study follows a man ostracised from his community