News

Let’s get this out the way: Nobody titles their film “Eel” if they don’t want critics to reach for the adjective “slippery,” and Chu Chun-Teng’s woozily gorgeous first feature invites it from the off. Its story, slender but charged, is in a constant state of retreat, repeatedly darting into psychological and existential alleys just out of view. Its images, too, are often as elusive as they are beautiful, symbolically layered but accommodating of uncertain, Rorschach-style intuition. The chase is the thrill in “Eel,” an open-ended love story in which an atmosphere of suspended summertime yearning is sometimes cut through with gestures of brazen, unambiguous, horny human need — like a head-clearing pang, or pain, amid lapping waves of more inchoate feeling.

Arguably the most esoteric selection in the inaugural, debut-focused Perspectives competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, “Eel” also announces one of its most emphatically confident...

“Us and Them” is the perfect love story of passion for teenagers, but also for adults. I must admit that the romantic genre is not one I usually pay attention, but if the film is good, I don’t care about the genre or where it comes from. In this case, we are talking about a Chinese film directed by Rene Liu and starring mainly Jing Boran and Zhou Dongyu.

“Us and Them” is available to watch already in some countries on Netflix”

The story starts on an airplane. Jianqing meets Xiaoxiao during a plane trip, a woman he is familiar with . The two look at each other from a distance and that’s when the memories of the past come to life. The story takes us back 10 years before this event, when these two young people met, during a long train trip. From there on, a very special friendship emerges between the two teenagers.