Noah Baumbach’s movie takes you through a phase somewhere between a couple’s last fight and their first court hearing
A film based around a theme previously un-discussed in this part of world cinema chose to go the same way of storytelling as the industry’s previous family based social dramas.
From October 17 to 24, Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) organised its annual Mumbai Film Festival. The event saw over 190 movies from 53 countries in 49 languages, including 13 world premieres and over 50 debuts. These numbers are a testament to the fact that MAMI remains the country’s biggest film festival, and is on its path to being in the road map of prestigious film festivals, accompanying Cannes, Berlinale, Sundance, and Busan. What remains the most critical and celebrated aspect of MAMI’s success is its ability to successfully get both — most acclaimed of world cinema and the most underrated films from independent Indian directors. The biggies included the opening film, Muthoon; Martin Scorsese’s much-awaited The Irishman; Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story; Sundance winner — The Souvenir; Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory; and Robert Eggers’ black and white thriller, The Lighthouse. But it was a Kislay’s Aise Hi (Just Like That), and Archana Phadke’s About…
A devastatingly beautiful origin story
The movie has more twists than you expect it to have, and that is its most significant twist
A parody of the celebrity culture, faith, cricket and… India
Much like the characters, ‘Chhichhore’ doesn’t have a winning formula
It is about too many things to be about a concept or a feeling peculiarly
A self-referential tale of an obsessive time
A humane movie of Anand Kumar’s struggles and triumphs still is left to be made