Busan reviews – Page 3
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Reviews‘Anita’: Busan Review (Closing Film)
Louise Wong plays Cantopop superstar Anita Mui in this nostalgic biopic
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Gensan Punch’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza’s latest follows an aspiring boxer who refuses to let disability define him
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Reviews‘Memoryland’: Busan Review
Kim Quy Bui’s beautifully composed sophomore feature explores attitudes about death in Vietnam
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘The Apartment With Two Women’: Busan Review
Kim Se-in’s unflinching debut chronicles a mother and daughter at war
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Reviews‘Pedro’: Busan Review
Natesh Hegde’s ruminative character study follows a man ostracised from his community
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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