Tackling issues that are considered very sensitive and almost taboo, is one of the purposes of cinema. Zicheng Li accomplishes just that, in a rather shocking but also realistic work, that was his USC Graduate Thesis Film.
“A Sunburnt Summer” is screening at NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival
Mia, a single mother, returns home to her only son, Teddy, who had his birthday the previous night, only to find the remains of a party. Thinking her son is hungover, she tries to wake him up, but sees the signs of violence on his hand. Soon, they both realize that Teddy was molested by Sean, one of the two friends he had over the previous night, who also happens to be the son of the headmaster of the school the boys attend, and Mia’s employer and close friend. Mia and Teddy go to the police and try to contact Lily,...
“A Sunburnt Summer” is screening at NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival
Mia, a single mother, returns home to her only son, Teddy, who had his birthday the previous night, only to find the remains of a party. Thinking her son is hungover, she tries to wake him up, but sees the signs of violence on his hand. Soon, they both realize that Teddy was molested by Sean, one of the two friends he had over the previous night, who also happens to be the son of the headmaster of the school the boys attend, and Mia’s employer and close friend. Mia and Teddy go to the police and try to contact Lily,...
- 6/8/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“What is the essence of cinema?” is the question that haunts film critics and theorists for decades. In his book “What Cinema Is!”, film scholar Dudley Andrew believes that film is a conduit to bring the audience toward others’ lived experience. Following the idea that film should be an encounter with the world, Andrew argues that the film frame leads the audience to different spaces. A threshold “functions as a passage from one to the other [space].” While Andrew drew his inspiration from André Bazin’s writings, Malaysian-Taiwanese director Ming-Liang Tsai’s film “The Hole” illustrates Andrew’s thinking of film surprisingly well.
“The Hole” is a hybrid of science fiction and musical. The film is set in 1999’s Taipei and a new epidemic, “Taiwan fever”, breaks out. Those infected by the disease will start to crawl like a cockroach and there seems to be no cure for the disease.
“The Hole” is a hybrid of science fiction and musical. The film is set in 1999’s Taipei and a new epidemic, “Taiwan fever”, breaks out. Those infected by the disease will start to crawl like a cockroach and there seems to be no cure for the disease.
- 8/26/2019
- by I-Lin Liu
- AsianMoviePulse
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