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“Past Lives | TAKE ONE Watch Online” During Celine Song’s exquisite and delicate PAST LIVES – a deeply human film about the pain of missed chances and the hard truths – they introduce the Korean phrase “In-Yun”. The concept of “In-Yun” speaks about fate and predestination. It says that the lives you lived previously, and…
“Girl | TAKE ONE | Sundance 2023 Watch Online” Following an immigrant mother and daughter in Glasgow, Adura Onashile’s GIRL is a gentle and sometimes hypnotic view of a life laced with the after-effects of trauma. Although the film shows how it affects those around you, Onashile’s feature debut achieves this with its interest in…
“Femme | TAKE ONE | Reviews Watch Online” At the 2021 British Indie Film Awards, directors Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman were recipients of Best British Short Film for their 18-minute anxiety attack, FEMME. In the award-winning short, a drag artist (then played by I May Destroy You’s Paapa Essiedu) gets into the…
“BlackBerry | TAKE ONE | Berlinale 2023 Watch Online” In the early 2000s, the tech world experienced a boom. Mobile phone users swelled to unprecedented levels with the introduction of the BlackBerry, a “cellular device with email, text and internet”. With its iconic click-click QWERTY keyboard and exclusive messenger service BBM, it was once dubbed…
“Eo | TAKE ONE | Watch Online” EO, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, joins a recent trend of films from the perspective of a non-anthropomorphised animal. GUNDA (Viktor Kossakovsky) is a wordless film following a pig’s daily life, and Andrea Arnold’s COW follows the life of a dairy cow bred for milking and breeding. Unlike BABE,…
“Saint Omer | TAKE ONE | Watch Online” It takes a deft hand to communicate empathy in the story of a mother who has killed her 15-month-old baby, but director Alice Diop handles this courtroom drama with grace, even if the genre tag feels reductive here. Laurence Coly is on the stand, having left her…
“Blue Jean and media-reinforced heteronormativity | TAKE ONE Watch Online” There is a central idea between the dramatic unfoldings of BLUE JEAN: internalised homophobia triggers a fight or flight response. Walter Bradford Cannon’s famous ‘fight or flight’ theory, otherwise known as Acute Stress Response, is referenced early in Georgia Oakley’s outstanding feature debut. In BLUE…
“Aftersun | TAKE ONE | Edinburgh Film Festival 2022 Watch Online” Charlotte Wells’ feature debut showcases the assured hand she had already demonstrated in her short film work and enhances it further to balance tone and pace throughout a touching story of a daughter and her troubled father on holiday. Calum (Paul Mescal) takes his…
“My Small Land | TAKE ONE | Watch Online” Like many wealthy nations, Japan is a hard country to survive in without being born there. Its system that processes asylum seekers and refugees is particularly notorious; in recent years, numbers of applications have topped ten thousand, and numbers of accepted cases have only reached the…
“Off the Rails | TAKE ONE Watch Online” Within five minutes of this new documentary – after the home video wanderings settle into a casual conversational rhythm – it is impossible to look away from the feats of derring-do on display: the subjects are a youthful group dedicated to parkour. They climb to the top…