Four stories, each intense and tragic, all connected in some way to relate a singular narrative. Many films are told this way – director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu often constructs his films in this way – but few are as worthy of celebration as Babel. Taking its name from the Tower of Babel, which in the [...]

“Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine”
It is the solemn duty of a film to transport its viewer into another dimension having interwoven layers of illusions and realities, where one can momentarily live a lifetime of happiness and fulfillment. However, it is wishful thinking to expect a movie to give a illusionary make-over to reality, and simultaneously have the surreal put on the cloak of the real. Pan’s labyrinth is one of the very rare movies that make this expectation more tangible as it takes us on a tour of dreams while keeping our feet firmly planted in reality…

This visual delight is a Mexican political metaphor in the garb of a wonderfully unapologetic elevating teen charade. The blatantly sexual and unabashedly erotic elements are expertly entwined with deliberate, yet subtle musings on class, morality and intimacy. Cuarón has captured, with a rare sensitivity of truth, a multifaceted political evolutionary saga for the country [...]