Tom SaerAftersun: Emotions on HolidayThis review contains a brief discussion of suicide.·11 min read·Feb 20, 2023----
Tom Saer“There are so many Gatsbys in Korea”: The politics and intertexts of Lee Chang-Dong’s “Burning”…In my review for Hamaguchi’s exceptional Drive My Car, I said that Lee Chang-Dong’s 2018 film Burning was a “dark, fiery inverse” of that…·7 min read·Jun 8, 2022----
Tom SaerMurakami Done Right: Therapy and Intertext in “Drive My Car” (2021)Haruki Murakami’s work, best known as combination of surrealism, absurdism, and literary trickery, is notoriously difficult to cinematise…·10 min read·Apr 30, 2022----
Tom SaerExperiencing memory, remembering experience: Some remarks on Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria”Tilda Swinton’s film career is saturated with the weird and wonderful. Her broad range, and excellence across that range, is…·10 min read·Feb 6, 2022----
Tom SaerBirdman or: (The Unexpected Usefulness of Intimidation)Iñárritu’s scorching fifth feature is an artisctic gift that keeps on giving·13 min read·Mar 1, 2021----