Seven films in and all features have premiered in Cannes, Buenos Aires born filmmaker Lisandro Alonso has alongside the likes of Lucrecia Martel and Pablo Trapero been at the forefront of the New Argentine Cinema movement. Known for minimalist “slow cinema,” famous for austere, observational, and blurring the lines between docu observation and fiction the key themes in his work include solitude, wandering journeymen with deep ties to the landscape. He first loaded up the Croisette with four features in his first decade of filmmaking – La Libertad (2001), Los Muertos (2004), Fantasma (2006) and Liverpool (2008). He presented Jauja in the Un Certain Regard section in 2014, and we had to wait until 2023 for his ambitious Eureka to premiere as a Cannes Premiere selection.… Read the rest
Zombie contagion sweeps over South Korea while a random band of survivors struggle to remain on a train racing from Seoul to Busan as the undead take over, tram car by tram car. With public transportation providing a cross section of social classes, these characters (or study group, rather) is merely another microcosm of capitalistic greed and a queasy understanding of economic privilege. Sound familiar? Director Yeon Sang-ho crosses over from animation (The King of Pigs; The Fake) to make a sort-of sequel with live-action debut Train to Busan, which ends up feeling awfully similar to Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer mixed with the zombie dressing of a World War Z or 28 Days Later.… 
The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act in 
