All articles by John Berra – Page 2
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Reviews‘Brief History Of A Family’: Sundance Review
Remarkably assured debut from China is a hard-to-pin-down blend of genre influences
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Reviews‘The Goldfinger’: Review
‘Infernal Affairs’ duo Tony Leung and Andy Lau re-team for a rip-roaring tale of corruption and greed
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Reviews‘Across The Furious Sea’: Review
Huang Bo plays a bereaved father who embarks on a furious revenge mission in Cao Baoping’s relentless China- and Tokyo-set thriller
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Reviews‘Snow In Midsummer’: Review
Festival heavyweight revisits the tragic race riots that occured in Kuala Lumpur on May 13, 1969
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Reviews‘The Wrestler’: Busan Review
An underdog wrestler attempts to become a champion in the Bangladeshi sport of Boli khela
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Reviews‘Borrowed Time’: Busan Review
The lines between past and present blur as a Chinese woman searches for her father in Hong Kong
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Reviews‘Under The Light’: Review
Zhang Yimou’s latest, co-starring Joan Chen, emerges from a four-year delay to launch a bid for China’s ‘Golden Week’ glory
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Reviews‘Snow Leopard’: Venice Review
Tibetan auteur Pema Tseden’s final film is a study of the tension between tradition and modernity
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Reviews‘Love Is A Gun’: Venice Review
Taiwanese actor Lee Hong-chi makes his directorial debut with this tale of an ex-convict desperately trying to go straight
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Reviews‘City Of Wind’: Venice Review
A 17 year-old shaman comes of age in this remarkably-assured debut feature from Mongolia
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Reviews‘Marry My Dead Body’: NYAFF Review
Taiwan’s smash LGBT comedy is now set for release on Netflix, having won the audience prize at the New York Asian Film Festival
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Reviews’Abang Adik’: NYAFF Review
New York Asian Film Festival top prize-winner is a tour de force from Malaysia’s Jin Ong
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Reviews‘Bad Education’: Bifan Review
Three Taiwanese high school graduates embark on a night of increasing peversity in Kai Ko’s directorial debut
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Reviews‘A Song Sung Blue’: Cannes Review
Geng Zihan’s dreamlike debut offers a layered, fresh perspective in this Chinese coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘From You’: Jeonju Review
Jeonju prizewinner from South Korea explores the anxieties of artistic pursuits
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Reviews‘There Is A Stone’: Jeonju Review
Japan-set meditation about the connection between strangers wins top prize at Jeonju
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Reviews‘Ride On’: Review
Jackie Chan rides an effortless return to form in this story of a stuntman which draws heavily on his own life
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Reviews‘Full River Red’: Review
Shen Teng and Jackson Yee are tasked with solving a murder in Zhang Yimou’s rousing period actioner
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Reviews‘The Wandering Earth II’: Review
Frant Gwo’s hotly anticipated science fiction sequel builds on the scale of the smash hit original