Archive for August, 2013

Double Life of Véronique, The (1991)

By on Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique is a mesmerizing and poetic film experience which expresses such transcendent feelings as intuition, identity, fate and free-will. Are we alone in this universe, or is there more than one of us? We have no rational understanding of this, it is simply a feeling that we have, perhaps physical or metaphysical, as […]

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Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

By on Thursday, August 1st, 2013

With Raise the Red Lantern, Chinese director Zhang Yimou has created one of the most beautiful Chinese films, presenting a bold and frightening parable in which women are ruled and governed in a hierarchical society of long-established customs. The film is set in 1920s China during the warlord era, years before the Chinese Civil War. Songlian is […]

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