Zhuo-Ning Su

[TIFF Review] Mr. Six

From the late 80’s until the early 00’s, Chinese cinema has been a mainstay at A-list film festivals worldwide, picking up trophies left and right. Things chang...

[Venice Review] From Afar

Proving yet again that festival juries don’t read the trades or pay attention to chatter, the Golden Lion of the 72nd Venice Film Festival was presented to the ...

[Venice Review] Afternoon

It’s always been easier to review Tsai Ming-liang’s films than to make sense of them. Characterized by an often impenetrable language of silence and immobility,...

[Venice Review] A Bigger Splash

Despite a loose script that justifies little, Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s follow-up feature to his glorious melodrama I Am Love is a sweaty, kinetic, dan...

[Venice Review] The Clan

Who says there’s no place for meaty, gritty thrillers at A-list film festivals? Argentinian director Pablo Trapero’s El Clan (The Clan) is exactly the kind of c...

Zhuo-Ning Su

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