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André Novais Oliveira’s Long Way Home (2018), their most quietly entrancing feature, tells the story of Juliana (Grace Passô, star of FP’s anti-star system), a woman who recently moved to Contagem for a job with the city’s anti-dengue unit. She knocks doors and inspects backyards for humid areas wh…

The entire haunting, ludic mood of New Korean Cinema’s class-war films can be summed up by a scene in Bong’s Mother (2009)

[...] And in China a canny, Party-negotiated mix of state funding and foreign partnerships has propped up an industry likewise defined by its blockbusters. The Wandering Earth (2019) — “China’s first full-scale interstellar spectacular,” The Hollywood Reporter gushed — is exemplary: a feverishly ac…

The irony of working-class film flourishing at the end of history lends this new proletkino its distinct structure of feeling. Today’s working-class films have dwindled to the size of isolated protagonists, often women, trapped in small homes with families burdensome or disintegrating, their loneli…