The Fish Tale, From the End of the World, Under the Turquoise Sky | Japan Cuts 2023
By Guillermo Lopez Meza August 3, 2023
Three titles varied movies screenings during the final weekend of the festival’s 16th edition.
Three titles varied movies screenings during the final weekend of the festival’s 16th edition.
The strength of this quiet film lies in its depiction of the love between its two principal characters.
Perfect for summer, the French comedy is light, sweet, and bubby as a Kir royale.
In this kind-hearted and poignant film, director Cédric Klapisch puts his heroine through her paces as she faces new and unfamiliar music.
A mystery that morphs from a fascinating procedural into a sadly damning portrayal of innate misogyny.
Emmanuele Crialese’s loosely autobiographical story of a transgender tween and his family’s internal struggles in 1970s Rome.
A precise, purposeful, and rare political film that dares to criticize everything that falls under its gaze.
An intimate, suspenseful film that has the feel of the political paranoia thrillers of the 1970s.
Director Cristian Mungiu lays bare the tensions, pettiness, and fears in the mountainous Transylvanian rust belt, and takes the temperature of the populace—it has a high fever.