Tag Archives: families

It’s never easy with A Touch of Sin

It’s never easy with A Touch of Sin

As with all the arts, the history of cinema is a pattern of imitation, saturation, and reaction.  Few films show this more clearly than 44-year-old Jia Zhangke’s incisive and ambitious, but uneven and ...
A culture clash for Honour

A culture clash for Honour

Honour is a British film about the topical issue of honour killings that take place – at the rate of 12 a year – right here in the UK and at the rate of 5,000 worldwide.  The directorial debut of scri ...
Should the past be kept as just that?

Should the past be kept as just that?

After winning 70 major awards, including an Academy Award (Best Foreign Film), for his last film, A Separation, Writer/Director Asghar Farhadi is no longer just the most celebrated Iranian filmmaker a ...