Justin Chang

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Justin Chang

Early on in Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides,” a woman in her twenties, Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao), tries to escape her boyfriend, Guo Bin (Li Zhubin). Lord, how she tries. It’s 2001, and the two are alone on a bus, parked somewhere in Datong, a coal-mining city in northern China. Whenever Qiaoqiao tries to get up and bolt for the exit, Bin hurls her back down into her seat—up and down, up and down, eleven times in a row, until Qiaoqiao, in tears, finally breaks free on the twelfth attempt.

2 weeks ago | capradio.org | Justin Chang

When The Shrouds premiered at film festivals last year, David Cronenberg described it as his most personal work — a deeply felt response to the death of his longtime wife, from cancer in 2017. The movie is about a man named Karsh, who lost his wife, Rebecca, to cancer four years earlier. That's not the only similarity.

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Justin Chang

Before watching “April,” the new movie from the Georgian director and screenwriter Dea Kulumbegashvili, I had seen only one other fictional film that featured a real childbirth. It was “Staying Vertical” (2016), from the French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie, and although the movie was thoroughly steeped in the absurd, the birth was filmed in a single take that left no doubt about its authenticity.

2 weeks ago | kuow.org | Justin Chang

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel plays a widower who uses technology to monitor the remains of his dead wife. Janus Films When The Shrouds premiered at film festivals last year, David Cronenberg described it as his most personal work — a deeply felt response to the death of his longtime wife, from cancer in 2017. The movie is about a man named Karsh, who lost his wife, Rebecca, to cancer four years earlier. That's not the only similarity.

2 weeks ago | thepublicsradio.org | Justin Chang

When The Shrouds premiered at film festivals last year, David Cronenberg described it as his most personal work — a deeply felt response to the death of his longtime wife, from cancer in 2017. The movie is about a man named Karsh, who lost his wife, Rebecca, to cancer four years earlier. That’s not the only similarity.