Death to Lord Curzon

In what can only be called one of the most bizarre movies I have seen in recent times, Lord Curzon ki Haveli (Hotstar), located in somewhere in rural England, starts by telling the story of an innocuous enough couple visiting a somewhat feisty one. The story unfolds while the little kinks in their lives of both couples start unraveling. Especially the stiff uppitiness of Basuki (Paresh Pahuja), the educated Indian-English doctor with a fascination for his adoptive country, and the severely repressed personality of his doting wife Ira (Rasika Dugal). One thing leads to another, leading to a violent unraveling across immigration and racism, and liberal values and feminism. All in all at the ways and mores of an adoptive country. A strange movie worth a watch only if you have time and a penchant for the weirdly picturesque.

15/20

Flood of Memories

 In a movie that is reminiscent of Edge of Tomorrow and Source Code, the concept of reincarnating in a simulation in order to refine an output is vividly brought to life in The Great Flood (Korean). The movie starts off innocuously enough – one AI researcher Dr Gu An-na (Kim Da-mi) seeks to rescue her son Ja-in (Kwon Eun-sung) from the tsunamis that ensue after a meteorite strike. Climbing to higher floors in their skyscraper, and on the verge of being rescued by an UN rescue mission, the separation and restoration of mother and son becomes almost a metaphor for the restoration of humanity itself and its most defining emotions. As a post apocalyptic sci fi dystopia this would have been barely watchable, interweaving an emotional quotient lifts it to a very good movie with an original script

16/20

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