Zhuo-Ning Su

[Venice Review] The Danish Girl

As far as directors go, it doesn’t get much more middle-of-the-road than Tom Hooper. His films tend to feature clear-cut, identifiable conflicts sketched out in...

[Venice Review] The Wait

Seeing that the film starts in the middle of a memorial service, it doesn’t qualify as a spoiler to reveal that the unseen hero of L’attesa (The Wait) - the sub...

[Cannes Review] Dheepan

Until losing its cool in the third act and ending on a relatively soft note, French veteran Jacques Audiard's Dheepan is a muscularly directed dramatic thriller...

[Cannes Review] The Assassin

The Cannes Film Festival represents the pantheon of arthouse cinema, so it does raise eyebrows when a wuxia movie is included in its official selection. After a...

[Cannes Review] Sweet Bean

Festival programming is more often than not fraught with ulterior considerations. Which is why so much is being read into symbolic placements such as the openin...

Zhuo-Ning Su

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