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The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Human ambition may strive for perfection in The Belly of an Architect, yet through Peter Greenaway’s formal orchestration of an obsessive artist’s mortal downfall, the imperfect present is woefully diminished between classical antiquity and a perpetually renewing future.
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Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Within Zhang Yimou’s political fable of four rival mistresses competing for their Master’s favour, Raise the Red Lantern conceals an insidious, patriarchal terror, casting its manor in the smouldering crimson glow of privilege and peril.
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Paisan (1946)
Paisan not only offers Roberto Rossellini’s broadest consideration of Italy’s fractured wartime identity, but through its anthological structure, also examines those tragedies, sacrifices, and cross-cultural connections inevitably swallowed by the indifferent sweep of history.
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Ju Dou (1990)
Cycles of trauma are never fully broken in Ju Dou’s family dynamics of abusive marriages, affairs, and resentful children, each generation echoing the violence of the last, while Zhang Yimou’s visual poetry heightens such tragic, historic resonance.
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Obsession (2025)
Love stripped of consent warps into a demonic force in Obsession, and through one man’s reckless wish for absolute devotion, Curry Barker exposes the insidious, consuming violence of its coercive fulfilment.
