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The Red Suitcase 2023
One of the key things Fidel Devkota’s film, The Red Suitcase, demands upfront is patience. For a feature, the film seems terse and determinedly withheld. The storytelling is contained and expansive in the same breath, the linkages obvious but never pushed beyond a subtle and liminal space. The relatively short duration can be viewed as merciful considering the film’s keenly measured pacing, but what Devkota, along with his editor, Saman Alvitigala, accomplish here is far more complex and beautifully sinuous…
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An Asian Ghost Story 2023
“It was a strange time, with strange things and strange people”, the narrator recounts Hong Kong of the 1960s, perfectly setting the stone for this moody, meandering short film directed by Bo Wang. While there is an invitation to suspend a modicum of disbelief, An Asian Ghost Story (2023) is strongly tethered to the fractious cross currents of history. Wang glides through time as loosely and fluidly as do ghosts across lands and continents.
Full review:
www.highonfilms.com/an-asian-ghost-story-2023-dok-leipzig-film-festival-movie-review/
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Dhuin 2022
Working with Tajdar Junaid’s gently melancholic score, mostly guitar riffs and piano, Mishra explores in very delicately judged, featherlight beats the proverbial tale of dreams versus the more sobering circumstantial constraints, elevating it with splicing in deceptively lucid evocations of pathos that firmly abstains from any self-pity and an unhurried, deftly nuanced look at what it means to retain one’s moorings in a hometown, the losses incurred in journeys and transformations.
Full review :
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Therapy Dogs 2022
Therapy Dogs’ scattershot approach could have worked had it been emotionally involved. Eventually, all the nights out seem to blend into a dull eye-glazing blur where nothing sticks in the viewer’s mind. It’s draining to watch similar situations play out with little emotional variation. Having no date for prom night is yet another trope in this dramatic territory which the film touches on, to vapid effect. However, the film earns some honest moments which do possess situational truth in their execution and construction.
Full review :
www.highonfilms.com/therapy-dogs-2022-slamdance-review/
