Contributions from Mark Asch | Little White Lies

Contributor Mark Asch

Review

Flag Day

by Mark Asch

Sean Penn’s directorial follow-up to The Last Face is a blatantly self-indulgent vanity project full of tiring clichés.

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Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

Memoria

by Mark Asch

Apichatpong Weerasethakul meticulously crafts a sensory journey soaked in introspection and metaphysical perplexity.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Festivals

France – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Léa Seydoux plays a TV journalist in Bruno Dumont’s satire-of-sorts about France’s relationship with its media and itself.
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Memoria – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Tilda Swinton is extraordinary in a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul which comprises of ​“pure vibes”.
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Petrov’s Flu – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Kirill Serebrennikov’s delirious latest offers a strikingly singular vision of life in post-Soviet Russia.
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Flag Day – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Sean Penn returns to Cannes five years after the fiasco of The Last Face with a somehow even more calamitous family drama.
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Compartment No. 6 – first-look review

by Mark Asch

This delicate Finnish comedy of social and political manners has all the trappings of an arthouse crowd-pleaser.
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Lingui – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s bright, hopeful film addresses the persistent issue of women’s reproductive health in present-day Chad.
Review

Vitalina Varela

by Mark Asch

Portuguese master Pedro Costa charts a Cape Verdean émigré’s journey through the outskirts of Lisbon.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Review

Richard Jewell

by Mark Asch

Clint Eastwood continues his stellar run of films about unlikely American heroes hunted by the spotlight.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect

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