Are Scarlett Johansson and Candice Swanepoel the best dressed stars to walk the Venice Film Festival 2019 red carpet?
The 76th Venice International Film Festival is officially underway, and if you thought the red carpet in Cannes back in May could not get any more glamorous, our list of highlighted looks this time around will change your mind. As the temperature reached 31 degrees Celsius in Venice, celebrities seized the opportunity to turn up more heat and donned skin-baring looks that warranted a double take. Read More...
Five days later, the then 24-year-old Xu got up at dawn and took the baby to a covered vegetable market in Suzhou. There, he left the girl with a note written in brush and ink: “Our daughter, Jingzhi, was born at 10am on the 24th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, 1995. We have been forced by poverty and affairs of the world to abandon her. Oh, pity the hearts of fathers and mothers far and near! Read More...
2/5 stars
Muddled and frustrating almost from the outset, Yoshihiro Fukagawa’s achingly sentimental weepie Love Like the Falling Petals struggles to tell its story with coherent clarity.
It offers a lament for the fleeting nature of existence while simultaneously bemoaning the financial and emotional burden the elderly impose upon their families.
Honoka Matsumoto plays a disarmingly youthful hairstylist who is stricken by a rare condition that causes her body to age rapidly, leaving her first love, played by Kento Nakajima, reeling. Read More...