The location of Anthony Chen’s intimate film, The Breaking Ice, the icy Chinese city of Yanji near the North Korean border, offers insights into the circumstances of its protagonists lives, which are suspended as if frozen in place.

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS: “Gimme Danger” (Jim Jarmusch), “Train to Busan” (Yeon Sang-ho).

Like Rashomon, several of Kore-eda Hirokazu’s films use different perspectives to get to one truth. In Monster, a boy (Soya Kurokawa) complaints that a teacher has struck him and bullied him, and his mother (Sakura Ando) presses for answers, which are not readily easy to find. Ando is outstanding, as is Hinata Hiiragi as the […]