Ranjan Recommends ‘HAND ROLLED CIGARETTE’ (2020, Hong Kong).
A Hong Kong soldier displaced after the British handover of the island to China finds himself working for the Triad; but a smuggling deal...
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Jan 8, 20221 min read
Ranjan Recommends ‘@ZOLA’ (2021, USA).
A black waitress at a Detroit restaurant is persuaded by a white young stripper to accompany her on a road trip to Florida to perform on...
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Dec 31, 20211 min read
Ranjan Recommends ‘AANI MAANI’ (2019)
As the year draws to a close, we would remain grateful to OTT platforms for springing so many surprises, including regional and...
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Dec 25, 20211 min read
Ranjan Recommends ‘LES DEUX AMIS’ (2015)
French cinema and love triangles cannot quite go wrong, especially if it has Golshifte Farahani as its central character. Farahani who is...
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Dec 18, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends 'AZOR' (2021)
A Swiss banker goes to Argentina to replace his colleague who has mysteriously disappeared. The country has just been taken over by a...
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Dec 10, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends 'The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao', Brazil, 2019
Thwarted dreams, 'machismo' that defines Latin American patriarchy, and an impossible search are some of the elements that this sumptuous...
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Dec 4, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends Jeff Nichol's indie classic MUD (2012)
During one of their clandestine excursions to a deserted island near their home, two adolescents stumble upon a fugitive (played by...
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Nov 26, 20211 min read
Chocolat, a drama from French Cameroon is Ranjan's recommendation
Set in the late 50s in French Cameroon, Claire Denis’s CHOCOLAT (1988, France) is a study of colonialism through sexual tension that...
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Nov 20, 20211 min read
7 Prisoners and slavery in Brazil is Ranjan's recommendation this week.
7 PRISONERS (2021, Brazil) by Alexandre Moratto is a brutal portrayal of modern-day slavery set in Sao Palo where a couple of rural youth...
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Nov 13, 20211 min read
Palestinian filmmaker, Elia Suleiman's Astonishing debut is Ranjan's recommendation
For an audience accustomed to linear dramatic narratives, DIVINE INTERVENTION (2002, Palestine) might be unsettling initially; but very...
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Digital Cahier
Oct 29, 20211 min read
"Do you think you can live without making movies?" Ranjan's recommendation has the answer!
When a producer loses her long-time collaborator-director to heart attack, she withdraws into herself, moves into the suburbs and takes...
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Oct 23, 20211 min read
Sexuality in the times of authoritarianism: Operation Hyacinth is Ranjan's recommendation
A young police officer’s investigation into the murder of a homosexual opens up a Pandora’s Box of sordid details that could implicate...
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Oct 15, 20211 min read
This lighthearted look on Palestine-Israel conflict is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
An Arab production assistant working on a Palestinian soap in Israel is suddenly entrusted with the writing of the show when its regular...
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Oct 8, 20211 min read
Xavier Dolan's tale of sexuality and homophobia is Ranjan's recommendation this week
Somewhere in the Canadian countryside, a mother mourning the death of her younger son is visited by the son’s male lover on the eve of...
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Oct 1, 20211 min read
A film from Tunisia is what Ranjan recommends this week!
HEDI (2016, Tunisia) tackles the story of a shy young Tunisian car salesman whose domineering mother arranges a match for him to a girl...
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Sep 24, 20211 min read
Few better cocktails than Chabrol & Isabelle Huppert: Ranjan recommends their film for the weekend
In occupied France during WWII, an impoverished young mother of two children performs illegal abortions on women whose husbands are away...
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Sep 18, 20211 min read
Ranjan Das recommends a film for Sri Lanka for the weekend
For most viewers, Sri Lanka does not quite figure as a filmmaking nation despite significant films emerging from that country for so many...
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Sep 10, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends a Japanese spy thriller for the weekend
With the rise of Japanese nationalism in the early 40s, a young Japanese merchant and his wife find their Westernised lifestyle in direct...
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Aug 27, 20211 min read
Morphine from Russia is Ranjan's recommendation for the weekend.
Aleksei Balabanov’s MORPHINE (2008, Russia) is about a young doctor recently posted at a remote Russian village and his gradual descent...
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Aug 21, 20211 min read
Mexico and drugs: Ranjan recommends El Infierno for the weekend.
This big budget Mexican crime drama is a good study of how familiar tropes can be used and infused with sufficient unpredictability to...
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