Namrata Joshi

3 days ago | cinemaexpress.com | Namrata Joshi

After Payal Kapadia bagging the Grand Prix for All We Imagine As Light at the Cannes Film Festival last year, India is back at cinema’s Kumbh Mela with a new contender in Neeraj Ghaywan’s second feature film Homebound, which is competing in the official Un Certain Regard segment this year. Ghaywan is competing with the likes of Kristin Stewart, Scarlett Johansson, and Harris Dickinson.

1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Namrata Joshi

By Namrata Joshi Dominic's seeming adversary, on taking over the funeral parlour from his girlfriend Jade's (Catherine Chau) retiring uncle Ming (Paul Chun), is the Taoist priest Master Hello Man (Michael Hui). A practitioner of the elaborate "Break Hell's Gate" tradition, aimed at setting the dead souls free to reincarnate, he is conservative, rigid and strict in his ways.

1 week ago | cinemaexpress.com | Namrata Joshi

Anselm Chan’s The Last Dance features a rather off-the-wall comparison between a wedding and a funeral in that the seemingly disparate ceremonies could well be two sides of the same coin. This observation—the gifts given to the couple paralleling the offerings made to the departed—comes from the film’s lead protagonist, wedding planner Dominic (Dayo Wong) who is forced to leave his floundering trade amid the pandemic and the lockdown for a more profitable funeral business.

2 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Namrata Joshi

By Namrata Joshi For a filmmaker with a wacky sense of humour, reflected in his social media posts, Shillong-based Pradip Kurbah's The Elysian Field (Khasi title Ha Lyngkha Bneng) is a singularly sublime rumination on life through the medium of death and on relationships, most so, a sense of community, by dwelling on individual seclusion. The philosophical core is also richly suffused with a gentle humour.

2 weeks ago | cinemaexpress.com | Namrata Joshi

For a filmmaker with a wacky sense of humour, reflected in his social media posts, Shillong-based Pradip Kurbah’s The Elysian Field (Khasi title Ha Lyngkha Bneng) is a singularly sublime rumination on life through the medium of death and on relationships, most so, a sense of community, by dwelling on individual seclusion. The philosophical core is also richly suffused with a gentle humour.