Set in Malaysia, Fu zi, which is Cantonese for Father-son, is Hong Kong writer-director Patrick Tam’s first film in seventeen years. Winner of best film prizes at the Hong Kong Film Awards, where Tam also won as best director and (with Tian Kai-Leong) for best script, the Tokyo International and Golden Horse Film Festivals, the […]
Daily Archives: May 26, 2010
Enervating, only dimly surreal family melodrama written unsteadily and unconvincingly by José Emilio Pacheco and the director, Arturo Ripstein, El castillo de la pureza claims multiple sources: reality—I’m afraid here is another of those nonsensical “true stories,” this one based on a fellow and his family in Mexico City in the 1950s; novelist Luis Spota’s […]
Dennis Grunes 