A slow burn by Claire Denis is Ranjan's Reccomendation this week
Director Claire Denis reduces the plot of BEAU TRAVAIL to its minimum, choosing to narrate the events in fragments through the reminisces...
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Digital Cahier
Sep 131 min read
Recently added to Netflix is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week
Written, directed, and co-produced by Jeremy Saulnier, REBEL RIDGE (US, 2024) follows ex-marine Terry Richmond's quest for revenge...
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Digital Cahier
Sep 61 min read
A Taxi Driver from South Korea is Ranjan's Recommendation this week!
In May 1980, students in the South Korean city of Gwangju rose up in revolt against the country’s authoritarian government. A Seoul taxi...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 301 min read
Moonlight is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week
MOONLIGHT (US, 2016) touches upon all the tropes that a film involving a black protagonist deals with: unemployment, drugs, hostile...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 231 min read
Murders & marriage: Adrian Lyne's Deep Water is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week!
Despite having an open marriage, Vic (Ben Affleck) is jealous of his wife’s (Ana de Armas) affairs. As a series of mysterious...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 161 min read
Me Too & Marie Schraeder's SHE SAID is Ranjan Recommendation this week
Based on the book of the same name SHE SAID by two New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor – played...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 91 min read
Malayalam film Ullozhukku is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week
As a bereaved young wife, along with her mother-in-law waits for several days for the rains to subside so that they can hold the funeral...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 21 min read
Paradise, the Indo-Sri Lankan film is Ranjan's Recommendation this week!
I am not sure if Sri Lankan auteur Prasanna Vithanaje had Satyajit Ray’s ARANYER DIN RATRI (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1970) in mind...
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Digital Cahier
Mar 231 min read
Ranjan Recommends a Malayalam film for the week.
Post-performance of a well-appreciated play, the sole actress of the group (played impressively by Zarin Shihab) is groped in her sleep...
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Digital Cahier
Mar 161 min read
Japan & its families: The tale continues. This week Ranjan Recommends Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata.
TOKYO SONATA’S plot kicks off as a regular salaryman loses his job to cheap Chinese workers but hides the news from his family....
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Digital Cahier
Mar 81 min read
Mendoza, long take & crime in the Phillippines is what Ranjan Recommends for the week!
A young cell phone snatcher kills its owner and is subsequently arrested. While the grandmother of the thief tries to raise money for his...
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Digital Cahier
Mar 11 min read
Ranjan Reccomends Tarantino & his Inglorious Basterds for the week!
In this post-truth world where everything is suspect, where emotion scores over facts and vicious disinformation proliferates under...
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Digital Cahier
Feb 231 min read
Kinatay & the Filipino underbelly is what Ranjan Recommends to us for the week!
A newly-married 21-year-old student of criminology in need of money is roped in for a clandestine operation one night by a criminal...
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Digital Cahier
Feb 161 min read
It is a Justine Triet film that Ranjan Recommends for the week.
Victoria is a Paris-based criminal lawyer with two kids. As she goes about her days, she has to juggle between fighting her ex-husband...
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Digital Cahier
Feb 101 min read
Ranjan Reccomends a Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons drama for the week
A socialite woman (Glenn Close) sinks into irreversible coma and her dissolute husband (Jeremy Irons in an Oscar-winning role) is accused...
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Digital Cahier
Feb 21 min read
A gorgeous film from China is Ranjan's Reccomendation this week.
A young motorbike courier and small-time crook in search of his lost love forms the core of the plot of Lou Ye’s SUZHOU RIVER (2000,...
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Digital Cahier
Jan 271 min read
Agnes Varda's The Beaches of Agnes recommends Ranjan for the week.
This is an autobiographical essay by the legendary French filmmaker Agnes Varda made to commemorate her 80th birthday in which she traces...
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Digital Cahier
Jan 191 min read
Leave No Trace is Ranjan's Reccomendation for the week.
Will, a war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), lives illegally in the reserved forest with his teenage...
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Digital Cahier
Jan 121 min read
Casa Grande: An assured cinematic hand is Ranjan's Reccomendation for the week
As the fortunes of a wealthy family in Rio de Janeiro crumble, its teenage son Jean must come to terms with it; but unlike his parents...
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Digital Cahier
Oct 28, 20221 min read
Oru Thekkan Thallu Case is Ranjan's recommendation for the week!
Biju Menon plays a highly respected lighthouse keeper in a small village in Kerala whose unabashed patriarchal heft and intimidating ways...
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