Busan reviews – Page 5
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Reviews‘The Absent Director’: Busan Review
An audacious single-shot drama that follows an Iranian theater company staging an experimental ‘Macbeth’
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Reviews‘Red Pomegranate’: Busan Review
A pregnant, abandoned wife must fend for herself in Sharipa Urazbayeva’s study of sexual violence and poverty
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Reviews‘Asteroid’: Busan Review
Mehdi Hoseinivand Aalipour’s affectionate first film observes the tender bonds of one Iranian family
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Reviews‘Seire’: Busan Review
A disorienting, accomplished psychological drama about a new father grappling with superstition and guilt
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Reviews’Photocopier’: Busan Review
A compelling tech-thriller about a computing student getting to the bottom of what happened to her last night at a party
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Reviews‘Missing’: Busan Review
A bereft widower pursues a serial killer in Katayama Shinzo’s ambitious second feature
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Reviews‘Heaven: To The Land Of Happiness’: Busan Review (opening film)
An amiable, ambling odd-couple comedy from South Korean auteur Im Sang-Soo
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Reviews‘Tigers’: Busan Review
A rivetting look at the price of sporting fame from Sweden’s Ronnie Sandahl
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Reviews‘Harami’: Busan Review
A young pickpocket develops a conscience after meeting the beautiful daughter of one of his victims
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Reviews‘Empty Body’: Busan Review
A philosophical sci-fi drama about a grieving mother whose dead son returns in an android body
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Reviews‘Yellow Cat’: Busan Review
A ‘Bonnie And Clyde’-style romance between a socially awkward fugitive and the scatty hooker he befriends
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Reviews’Josee, The Tiger And The Fish’: Busan Review (closing film)
A charming, unashamedly melodramatic anime about the bond between a marine biology student and a paraplegic
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Reviews‘Summer Blur’: Busan Review
This sensitive, assured debut focuses on the anguished adolescence of a teenager who’s a bystander in her own life
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Reviews‘Children Of The Night’: Busan Review
A chilling documentary takes us inside a Turkish refugee camp in which boys are trained to kill
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Reviews‘Bittersweet’: Busan Review
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan explores the plight of female sugar cane cutters in India
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Reviews‘Beyond You’: Busan Review
A South Korean metaphysical melodrama that defies the laws of time and space
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Reviews‘Red Soil’: Busan Review
This whistleblower drama, co-produced by the Dardenne brothers, is buoyed by strong performances
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Reviews‘Teddy’: Busan Review
Rising star Anthony Bajon is magnetic in a soulful horror film full of giggles and social commentary
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Reviews‘Bilesuvar’: Busan Review
The titular Azerbaijan city serves as the setting for five loosely intertwined vignettes
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Reviews‘School Town King’: Busan Review
Two Bangkok teens rap about their lives in the Klong Toey slum in this empathetic documentary








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