Tag: Romance
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Issue 30: Romance
“We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts” – Moonstruck (1987) Cinema… isn’t it romantic? Going out to the movies is obviously a perfect choice for a date choice. But what to see? A Romantic comedy or a drama about heart-break? And did the movies set us up for unrealistic expectations or… Read.
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The Whip And The Body (1963)
When a film communicates two emotions happening across a character’s face, all in the one shot, the magic trick of that. In the Mario Bava directed film, The Whip and The Body (1963), there’s a tremendous close-up of the character of Nevenka (Dahlia Lavi), walking down a darkened castle hallway, approaching a door where she… Read.
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Here (2023)
Two characters walk through a Belgian forest on the outskirts of the city. A shot follows one of the characters as they move, and the sound design emphasises the ambience of nature. The leaves rustling, the wind, and cracking trees. We don’t hear the human footsteps as they trudge, and as we see between bushes,… Read.
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Yourself And Yours (2016)
This has happened before with a previous Hong Sang-soo movie where I just took the events at face value, and only later browsing other people’s reviews saw the different ways they were reading into it. Because what the film, Yourself And Yours (2016), covers is often so ordinary and everyday – people meeting at bars,… Read.
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Before We Vanish (2017)
Yusuke Hayashi’s score for Before We Vanish (2017) – directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa – brings to mind memories of Amblin Entertainment productions. There’s something about the orchestral sweep, its eerie tension and yet a little twinkle-in-the-eye feeling. The sound of an alien invasion movie, and with Kurosawa’s genius for creating tension and unease through blocking, framing and… Read.
