Zhuo-Ning Su

[Venice Review] The Road to Mandalay

We’ve lamented the qualitative drop of Chinese cinema around this time last year, as Hu Guan’s glossy generational drama Mr. Six closed the Venice Film Festival...

[Venice Review] Hounds of Love

Premiering in the Venice Days section ahead of its 2017 Australian release, director Ben Young’s feature debut is the kind of film you wish you could un-see – e...

[Venice Review] The Age of Shadows

Eyebrows were raised when it was announced that South Korea will submit the as-yet-unreleased espionage thriller The Age of Shadows for Oscar consideration inst...

[Venice Review] Frantz

One can accuse François Ozon of many things, but lack of ideas isn’t one of them. The prolific French auteur is a constant presence at A-list film festivals sin...

[Cannes Review] The Wailing

Since the early aughts, South Korea has been one of the most prolific and exciting exporters of genre cinema, giving us such indelible gems as Oldboy, The Host,...

[Cannes Review] The Dancer

Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, The Dancer is an impassioned if formally conservative portrait of Loïe Fuller (...

[Hamburg Review] The Demons

Part coming-of-age story, part familial drama, part psychological thriller and even carrying with it a whiff or two of supernatural horror, Canadian director Ph...

Zhuo-Ning Su

Berlin-based freelance film journalist. Watches too many movies for his own good.