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Read More »ND/NF REVIEW: "Journey to the Sun," A Turkish Delight of Injustice and Poetryby Mark Peranson(indieWIRE/3.30.2000) -- Yesim Ustaoglu's courageous second feature handles the subjects of police brutality, flagrant injustice and political repression with a deft hand -- the result is more a poetic mourning about the state of a state than a harsh piece of anti-Turkish propaganda. I'll rephrase that: "Journey to the Sun" is a subtle work of anti-government propaganda, which also manages to sustain a tense atmosphere as politics start to dominate the lives of its main characters. More of a love on the run than a less racist version of "Midnight Expr...
Read More »REVIEW: Indian Beauty: "Such a Long Journey" Chronicles Middle-Age Strife in 1970s Suburban Bombayby G. Allen Johnson (indieWIRE/3.30.2000) -- "All life's problems," a dying man tells Gustad Noble, "begin whenever we look for permanence."
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Read More »ND/NF: "Northern Skirts" Raises Austrian Politics and Artists' Concerns in the Age of Haider
Read More »ND/NF REVIEW: "Suzhou River"; It's Déjà Vu All Over Againby Mark Peranson(indieWIRE/3.29.2000) -- Named after the murky, polluted river that floats through Shanghai, "Suzhou River" confidently charts how its filth overflows into a noirish gangland story of a kidnapping, a girl, a motorcycle driver, and another pair -- the narrator and his girlfriend, who are their doubles. Heads, tails, and stripes above all other films that competed at this year's International Film festival Rotterdam Rotterdam -- and one of the eventual winners of the festival's top award -- was Lou Ye's very assured and engrossing tale. You're unlikely to fin...
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Read More »ND/NF: "Voyages" with France's Best First Film Director, Emmanuel Finkiel
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