“Father to Son” is one of those movies that take its time simmering in order to tell the story. While the pacing is slow, it never gets boring. Due...
Category - Taiwanese Reviews
Taiwanese cinema has been on the rise during the latest years, with a number of excellent films such as “The Great Buddha Plus“, “The Bold...
“Adults are the stupidest creatures on earth” Unsurprisingly, a large part of the most inspired art comes from a source of pain and suffering. Or at least this...
Cinema, as much as literature has long been a source of fervent mythologising, be it of serial killers, politicians, musicians, sports heroes – anyone who has...
“Meili” is a film that brushes up decades old rules of art-house production to show they still can add a spin to an independent/art-house film when...
After Hong Kong and Thailand, now it's Taiwan's turn to present its own very personal vision of the near future in “Ten Years Taiwan”, the omnibus that is now...
“The last thing I hate is that life always forces us to keep moving forwards.” In the aftermath of the New York Film Festival, reporter Vincent Canby...
"A Brighter Summer Day" is a story about identity, adolescence and change
“Why is the world so different from what we thought it was?” In the course of the 20th century, no other entity has perhaps changed our life as thoroughly as...
Filming one's family members is an old trope in documentary filmmaking. If you don't know what to say, start with something that your are familiar with. We...