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Ryan Swen

Double Impact: Soi Cheang’s Limbo and Mad Fate

By Ryan Swen
January 16, 2024
Gut check: the latest pair of films from Soi Cheang, a Hong Kong genre master little known in the U.S., demonstrate the sleek blend of existential bleakness and technical wizardry that characterizes his cinema

Review: Fabian: Going to the Dogs

By Ryan Swen
February 22, 2022
Bark vs. bite: In typical fashion, Dominik Graf’s latest resonates as both a fully fleshed-out melodrama and a grand portrait of Weimar-era Germany