Monday, 27 April 2020

Jules et Jim: Truffaut's ode to love, friendship, and beyond

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Can a mother love two of her children equally? At a given instance, surely not. Performing a time average over her lifetime may yield an...
Saturday, 3 November 2018

Deconstructing Morality: Rohmer's six moral tales

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The word moral comes from the Latin word moralis meaning "proper behaviour of a person in society". The problem comes with the ...
Thursday, 23 November 2017

Scenes from a marriage: A peek into the complexity of being together

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Bergman is a master of portraying self-introspection. According to me, Wild Strawberries is probably the best example of it. I went back t...
Tuesday, 2 May 2017

The need to move away from the Ray nostalgia

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Today being the birthday of Satyajit Ray the internet is flooded with articles remembering the genius of Ray, his impact on Indian cinem...
Thursday, 23 March 2017

Rewatching Woody Allen: Hannah and her sisters

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Whenever I have gone back repeatedly to Woody Allen's films it has been mostly among  Annie Hall, Manhattan, Vicky Christina...
Friday, 17 March 2017

Elle: walking on the borderline of absolute perversion

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In one of his interviews, David Fincher says people are perverts and that this is the foundation of his career.  In the documentary The...
Friday, 24 February 2017

Brief Encounter: the perfect British affair

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I recently read Orson Welles commentary on Casablanca . He notes that both Bogart and Bergman were ordinary in the film but together th...