Author Archives: Lokesh Ganesam

Chaitanya Tamhane opens his second feature with a cut from the black, with what sounds like a slow warbling of Indian Classical Music playing, to the establishment shot of people listening in bliss to the masterful presentation of Śāstriya Saṅgīt (Northern Indian Classical Music a.k.a Hindustani Music). The next cut, the camera sits with theContinue reading “The Disciple (2020)”

🎬  Alice Rohrwacher⁣ “𝘚𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴… 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘴… 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭… 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯.” Just like Rohrwacher’s previous films Happy As Lazzaro starts with a dark image as well, I don’t think it’s any coincidence. The image of darknessContinue reading “Lazzaro Felice (2018)”

🎬  Joel Coen and Ethan Coen⁣⁣ Coen Brothers’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, No Country For Old Men is nothing like your usual neo-western but the complete deconstruction of a classic good vs bad tale. As in each of those stories you have here, a good guy, a bad guy, and then a morally soundContinue reading “No Country For Old Men (2007)”

Lokesh G A lot of people talk about The Master and There Will Be Blood, they are masterpieces and I’m not here to deny it and in fact, The Master is my best film of the last decade along with Portrait of a Lady On Fire but I find the first three films of PTAContinue reading “Paul Thomas Anderson – Movements”

Lokesh G Persona begins with some random shots of earliest cinema and ends with the shot of a film roll that is getting over and the projection seems to end as if to indicate that whatever we witnessed between these are not reality but lies. The lies that we tell ourselves to become someone elseContinue reading “Persona – Non-existentiality”

Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s second feature film Super Deluxe is a hyper narrative dark comedy cum drama but to be honest you really can’t fit the film into genre(s). I don’t want to go into this so called ‘decoding of the film’ thing but what I want to talk about here is the larger picture of whatContinue reading “SUPER DELUXE – A RETROSPECT”

There’s nothing much to do talk about here as far as narrative is concerned so I will just stick to the production.Pyscho(2020) by Mysskin occured to me as a film that never really gave a fuck about its characters,mood and details for it to be about a Serial Killer…Also it seemed like Mysskin too didn’tContinue reading “Psycho (2020)”