Film Review: Sabar Bonda — What May Bloom Within Ten Days After his father’s death, Anand has to return to his village for ten days. It is the rule. He cannot wear shoes, cut his hair or shave, and he must not go back to the city. He has to receive greetings, hugs and tears from every relative, along with the question that will come sooner or later: Isn’t it time you found a partner? Anand works at a call centre in the city. In his thirties, he is unmarried and has no plan to

Lightness and Solidity: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa We constantly encounter the weightless in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s cinema: newspapers fluttering across the living room at the opening of Tokyo Sonata; Jun Fubuki standing alone against a wall, brushed by a breeze, at the beginning of Seance; the philosophical zombies coated in smooth silver paint inhabiting a realm of consciousness in Real; or the spectral media ghosts suspended in midair, inching toward the living, in Pulse. Conversely,