Lola On Film

Tag: Luis Buñuel

  • Triangle Of Sadness

    Triangle Of Sadness

    The point where all good intentions in a storyline turn to dust is when the narrative stops respecting its characters, however vile they are. In Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winner, satire turns to caricature pretty quickly, offering an array of humans so painfully vapid, that I started to root for these horrible people to be given at…

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  • Black Humour in Serbian Films of the Early Eighties

    Black Humour in Serbian Films of the Early Eighties

    Examining the dark heart of laughter the symbiotic relationship of film and its audience, wiring us to think and talk in certain ways, its cultural impact, its myriad semiotic and cinematic legacies – this was my MA dissertation (Birkbeck, 2005), a bungy jump into Serbian (and YU) 80s cinema, four films, two filmmakers, Šijan and…

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