Between Two Worlds

Gekko No Sasayaki or “Moonlight Whispers” is a brilliant little Japanese film, written and directed by Akihiko Shiota, about young love which suddenly spins out of control and becomes sexual perversion. Not a very promising subject, you might think, and the quasi-clinical dimension of the film, though it has a serious point to make, is…

A Belgian film about a hit man with Alzheimer’s disease promises a bit more than it is able to deliver

The influence of Quentin Tarantino continues to exert its baleful effect on lesser film-makers more than a decade after Pulp Fiction

They don’t come much more charming than Shower, a Chinese film by Zhang Yang with a delicacy and a poignancy in its humor that is almost French. Its theme is a compelling one too, depicting in comic yet poignant form the clash between the new economy in post- Mao, post-Deng China and the old ways…

Perhaps not the best of the recent crop of movies about grief, this Israeli film is nevertheless very watchable

A remarkably sympathetic portrayal of the early life of St. Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei — though it gains nothing from being tangled up with a fictional romance