Part rom-com and part heist caper, The Con-Heartist is a delightfully absurdist and fast-paced comedy that’s guaranteed to put a smile on your face. A collection of modest yet moving shorts about love and kismet may seem like an unusual choice as the winner of the Silver Bear at the recent 71st Berlin International Film Festival, but it is well deserved. Built around long takes, opaque resolutions and compellingly flawed female leads, these elegantly observed and emotionally authentic snapshots of middle-class ennui are alternately humorous, moving and erotic. Set in Tokyo, Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy comprises three beautifully humane, dialogue-driven pieces that find understated poetry in seemingly mundane domestic drama. Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s latest effort is a charmingly bittersweet anthology film, tying together a triptych of thematically related but wildly unpredictable stories about coincidence.
A middle-aged woman attends her high school reunion in the hopes of rekindling an old flame, but finds an unexpected connection instead. A directionless woman in her 30s half-heartedly tries to seduce her old college professor, at the request of her young lover. Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy (Japan)Ī girl finds out that her best friend is dating her ex, which makes her wonder if she’s still in love with him. It reminds viewers that beyond social inconveniences and economic repercussions, it’s important to see and fully appreciate the devastating human toll of the coronavirus, and the tireless bravery of healthcare workers everywhere. Filled with raw emotion and selfless acts of humanity, 76 Days is an essential documentary. 76 Days is unvarnished and experiential, following under-resourced doctors and nurses doing everything they can to deal with unimaginable grief, physical exhaustion and terrified patients amid a relentless onslaught of emergencies.Įschewing voice-over and talking heads for a fly-on-the-wall approach, this documentary obtains first-person footage, cutting through abstract statistics and plunging viewers in the chaos and confusion. Filmed at four different hard-hit hospitals during the city’s initial lockdown, Hao Wu and Weixi Chen’s journalistic film remarkably captures all the unbridled panic and heroic pragmatism greeting a disaster before its entire global impact had even been gauged. This immersive and intimate documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan. 76 Days (China)Ĭinemas and Amazon Prime Video, January 23 It’s easy to see why the film’s punchy and propulsive script was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 93rd Academy Awards. Bahrani weaves an unintentional antithesis to Slumdog Millionaire here, crafting a cynical rags-to-riches tale of innocence lost, ruthless ambition and shameful self-betterment. Led by a trio of phenomenal performances from Adarsh Gourav (in his first leading role), Priyanka Chopra and Rajkummar Rao, The White Tiger grimly observes the moral costs of inequality and corruption on all levels.
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Nevertheless, the first half of 2021 has somehow still managed to produce a number of remarkable titles on screens big and small, particularly in Asia.įrom a dark satire of India’s caste system and a heartbreaking documentary about the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, to an addictive South Korean mafia series and an educational anime about human biology – NME highlights the best Asian films and TV shows of the year so far. Like every other industry, the ongoing global pandemic continues to severely affect the entertainment world – forcing production delays, altered release schedules, and major shifts to on-demand streaming distribution.
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