This review originally ran as a part of our TIFF 2019 coverage. Takashi Miike’s world is one of commonplace sociopathy. In his newest film, First Love, as in his others, the criminals aren’t just criminals. They’re ice cold sadists and...
Takashi Miike’s world is one of commonplace sociopathy. In his newest film, First Love, as in his others, the criminals aren’t just criminals. They’re ice cold sadists and slavering maniacs. And yet, also as in so many of his other...
Mia Hansen-Løve has built her films on the kind of trauma rarely explored onscreen, for its effects are minute, indescribable, and typically tempered by the person experiencing them. Whether it’s encountering an ex-boyfriend you still long for (Goodbye, First Love),...