Tag: chloézhao
Review: ETERNALS, A Rare, Altogether Disappointing Stumble for Marvel
After 25 pop culture-redefining films in almost a decade-and-a-half, the Marvel/Disney-Industrial Complex was bound to stumble. It already has at least three or four times (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor: The Dark World, Iron Man II), but those were minor...
Cannes 2017 Review: THE RIDER, Elegaic and Intimate Portrait of Suffering and Cure
Chloé Zhao's first feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, showed the beautiful and difficult life of a young man on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; his relationship with his family, his clashes with white men, and...
Review: SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME, Confident, Measured And Mature
The debut feature from Beijing-born Chloe Zhao focuses on the unlikely subject matter of adolescent Lakota indians in South Dakota. Beautifully photographed and confidently directed, Songs My Brothers Taught Me is a notable first film, marred only by a rather...