Uzbek cinema grew out of the Soviet-era Uzbekfilm studio, one of the oldest film studios in Central Asia, and developed a quietly distinctive voice blending local folklore with social realism. It remains little seen in the West, which makes any encounter with it worth paying attention to. Have a look at what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has built one of the most distinctive careers in contemporary Japanese cinema, arriving at international recognition on the back of unsettling genre films like Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001) before gradually broadening his scope into quieter, more domestically scaled dramas. To the Ends of the Earth, released in
Genre Animation
★★ — Echogram (2003)
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