Mistress America is Noah Baumbach’s second feature for 2015, and by far the strongest. His first effort, While We’re Young, parlayed an unconvincing generational-gap comedy into a weirdly-shoehorned meditation on authenticity in documentaries; Mistress America, thankfully, proves to be both a funnier comedy and a more insightful analysis of the blurred line between artificiality and…
I was introduced to Kim Ki-young’s The Housemaid late last year at the Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival with a screening of the World Cinema Foundation’s restored print. I’m not sure exactly what I expected from the film’s reputation – apparently a “consensus pick as one of the top three Korean films of all time.”…
While I may have just written an article criticising a certain Australian actor/director for his advocacy of cultural cringe, I must admit I’m susceptible to the same kind of cringe when talking about my city of residence: Brisbane. I’m pretty vocal about the perceived cultural black hole that is Queensland’s capital, a city that’s seemingly…
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