Busan reviews – Page 2
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Reviews‘Alteration’: Busan Review
Busan’s Jiseok award-winner follows an Uzbek man from the early 1980s to the present
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Reviews’The Continuing Land’: Busan Review
The lives of Korean ex-pats in Europe collide in Jo Hee-young’s accomplished debut
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Reviews‘Hail To Hell’: Busan Review
Two bullied girls seek revenge on their tormenter in this dark South Korean comedy
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Reviews‘Big Sleep’: Busan Review
A world-weary factory worker befriends a homeless boy in this debut from Kim Tae-hoon
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Reviews‘Peafowl’: Busan Review
A trans woman returns to her rural home town in Byun Sung-bin’s assured debut
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Reviews‘Greenhouse’: Busan Review
An ambitious and increasingly discombobulating debut from Lee Sol-hui can look forward to further festival play
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Reviews‘The Winter Within’: Busan Review
A desperate wife searches for her missing husband in modern day Kashmir
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Reviews‘A Place Called Silence’: Busan Review
Silence and secrets wield a devasating power in Sam Quah’s twisting thriller
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Ajoomma’: Busan Review
A Singapore woman finds a new lease of life while on holiday in South Korea
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Reviews‘Memento Mori: Earth’: Busan Review
A young Vietnamese woman confronts impending death in Marcus Manh Cuong Vu’s delicate debut
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Zwigato’: Busan Review
Kapil Sharma switches register to play a family man struggling with India’s gig economy in the latest from Nandita Das