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Availability Select theaters May 21 Marianne (Naian González Norvind), the 25-year-old bride-to-be and the closest thing the film has to a protagonist, actually manages to avoid this initial carnage. Before the violence began, she’d left her own wedding to go after Rolando (Eligio Meléndez), a former employee who’d come to the family for help with an urgent medical bill; her mother and brother had turned him away. But as Franco’s script operates under the principle that no good deed goes unpunished, suffering still awaits Marianne. The day after that initial uprising, some soldiers pi...

The cover of a book on Jean Luc Godard by G.P. Ramachandran   Film critic G.P. Ramachandran's book covers the maestro’s politics and the revolutions he brought about Watching the entire oeuvre of a filmmaker in one go, rather than watching them one at a time over several years, can give one deeper insights into the individual’s style and constant concerns. Especially so, when it is a filmmaker like Jean Luc Godard, whose first film Breathless came out in 1960, and the latest The Image Book in 2018. When film critic G.P. Ramachandran began writing a book on Godard, the first thing he d...

Film critic G.P. Ramachandran's book covers the maestro’s politics and the revolutions he brought about

Print As its verbose title implies, Croatian director Dalibor Baric’s experimental feature “Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus” is an inscrutable contraption. Chaotically arranged, like a feverish dance between mind-altering nightmares and pieces of reality, this ambitious mixed-media thesis operates under idiosyncratic rules to provoke a feeling of subconscious entrapment. Dense dialogue and narration — only seldom making concrete statements — feed us a semblance of identifiable plot that peaks through the scratched filmed imagery. After disappearing for a few mi...

Waiting for Godard Fumigated movie halls and antigentested delegates would be the hallmark of the 25th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), which opens on February 10 at Thiruvananthapuram and would be mirrored in Kochi and Thalassery and Palakkad. The prestigious festival despite the absence of international guests and programmers promises to be an interesting fare despite the reduced number of films. Jasmila Zbanic’s ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ (Where are you going, Aida?) in the backdrop of Bosnia’s brutal genocide would open the festival, which has close to 90 films...