Puan (2023) is a swing and a miss for two of Argentina’s biggest young directors.
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Problemista revolves around young El-Salvadoran immigrant Alejandro Martinez (Julio Torres) who moves to America in pursuit of working at Hasbro to design toys which focus less on ‘fun’.
In mixing this with Meldhau and Lim’s recent works; he gave the audience a panoply of sound, a romp through both the canon and the cutting edge.
Stilger’s hints about the big plot twist are scattered around the film like carefully placed breadcrumbs, and if you know what to look for, you will be able to form an idea of what may come next.
Almost every character in Stress Positions is obsessed with their own image, embodying America’s cultural anxiety of irrelevance in the face of otherness. The film takes place in Brooklyn at the beginning of the pandemic, and follows Terry (John Early) as he imposes a quarantine on himself and his nephew, Bahlul (Qaher Harhash), a 19-year-old Moroccan model.
The documentary lived up to the infamous energy of one of the most raucously loud, unashamedly political bands this country has ever produced.
This is the central thrust of Sembene’s film: those who have undertaken the greatest hardship (the troops) are treated like animals, whilst the officials relax, even though they have done nothing but subjugate and exploit
Peripathetic leaps into the future, but not without holding our hand as we navigate the quick-changing present. God knows we need it.
Oh Jung Min went on to explain that the tofu serves as a metaphor. “It takes a lot of effort to make, but it’s just as easy to break” —- finding continuity between the fragility of tofu, and the fragility of family.
Hoff’s film is a ravishing account of the birth of Australian surf culture, and the accompanying indie film movement, but its ambitious scope comes at the cost of depth.
