Jasmine Liu

Jul 11, 2024 | thebeliever.net | Jasmine Liu

Jasmine Liu How to make sense of your mother’s life when she dies after falling several flights from the top floor of her son’s, your brother’s, defective home elevator? This absurd incident, which opens Thuận’s Elevator in Sài Gòn, occasions the narrator’s return from Paris, where she has lived in exile for fifteen years.

Jun 14, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Jasmine Liu |Jaffer Kolb

In his latest film, Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi steadies his eye on a fictional village surrounded by forests several hours from Tokyo. The incursion of a glamping developer—Playmode—threatens to disturb the local community.

Apr 18, 2024 | thenation.com | Jasmine Liu

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Mar 21, 2024 | reverseshot.org | Jasmine Liu

Pathfinders by Jasmine Liu Mimang Dir. Kim Taeyang, South Korea, no distributor Mimang screened Sunday, March 17, at Museum of the Moving Image as part of First Look 2024. A woman runs into a man she knows. She’s on her way to the Seoul Cinema, where she’s participating in a panel commemorating the centennial of the birth of Korean film; he’s lately taken up “urban sketching” and is en route to a meeting with his drawing teacher. He says that drawing has taught him a few things.

Dec 4, 2023 | filmcomment.com | Jasmine Liu

This article appeared in the November 30, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. The Zone of Interest (Brian Glazer, 2023)In The Zone of Interest, the home of Rudolf and Hedwig Höss is alive with sensory activity. The family’s dog plays with the children, and barks in response to the snarls of prison dogs on the other side of the wall.