Swedish actress Mai Zetterling’s fourth film as director is the heady, very funny satire Flickorna in which three stage actresses, currently touring in a production of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, resort to flights of fancy/fantasy/dreams to cope with the derisive laughter of their chauvinistic men. Theirs is a world of male domination and control; but the visual […]

Ann Hui has stated she did not intend Tau ban no hoi, about Vietnam under Communist rule, as anti-Communist propaganda, and I see no reason to dispute her claim. A stunning view of war’s aftermath, it portrays poverty as an abiding crisis for the Vietnam people no matter who is in charge. (We see children, […]