It’s frustratingly difficult to get hold of Hongqi Li’s previous films Routine Holiday and Hao Duo Da Mi, even in his native China, so I’m coming to Winter Vacation as a Hongqi Li novice. I understand he’s better known as a poet, though I haven’t been able to read up on him much. But believe [...]
If we’re going to attach Attenberg to a genre, I suppose it would be a ‘rites-of-passage’ movie, though it’s pretty far removed from what you might imagine if I told you that its about a young woman coming to terms with love and death in a small coastal town. But Attenberg is full of surprises. [...]
There is a particular kind of critic that points at the work they’re reviewing and says ‘Yeah, well, if I had done it, I would have done it like THIS’. I generally hate those kinds of reviews and I only point this out because I’m ashamed that I’m kind of going to do the same [...]