The Man (2017)
The aching, vacant tone that director Charlotte Sieling adopts here feels like a distant echo of Buñuel’s satire.
The aching, vacant tone that director Charlotte Sieling adopts here feels like a distant echo of Buñuel’s satire.
It’s hard to talk about A Hijacking without comparing it to Captain Phillips so, fuck it, here we go. The two cover similar content, both narratively – focusing on commercial ships hijacked by pirates – and thematically, with each film drawing implicit links between their events and the damage wrought by modern commercialism/capitalism. Where Captain…