Vietnam responds to the witty and grandiose Indonesian thriller “The Raid” (2011) astoundingly, with a lethal extravaganza of martial arts, full-capacity tension and adrenaline on trucks, boats and bikes. This spectacularly choreographed t…
Phnom Penh, aujourd’hui. Trois jeunes, trois perspectives, trois parcours. Songsa, adolescent introverti, est envoye? dans la capitale par sa famille pour vendre des ve?tements dans un tuk-tuk. Phearum s’endette pour acheter un taxi et aff…
<p> Disaster movies tend to inhabit the close-but-not-too-close realm of the ‘what if?’, but Quentin Reynaud’s taut drama evokes a reality that is painfully immediate, as the world combusts around us. Alex Lutz (recently seen as t…
based on a true story. 1996, open sea. During his shift on a transatlantic ship’s deck, Joel, a religious Filipino sailor, discovers Dumitru, a Romanian stowaway hidden between some containers. If he is spotted by the Taiwanese officers…