In Turkey, [m]ore than a thousand people go missing “normally” every year and only half can be found. Some of these people go missing while in [police] custody. Dedicated to his mother and to all mothers, writer-director Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s fictional Hiçbiryerde follows a mother’s search for her missing son. When she is asked whether her […]
Daily Archives: July 10, 2009
Framed by gracious occasions of Buddhist observance, Hong Kong’s Ann Hui’s Yu guanyin, from her birth country, China, is a fierce, stunning, viscerally thrilling film noir, in rich, vibrant color, about a young police woman, An Xin (Zhao Wei, superb—best actress, Golden Phoenix Award), who identifies, and is identified by others, with the Goddess of […]
Dennis Grunes 