Criticism may have ended with Daney according to Godard, but some zombies still roam in the wasteland of cinephilia.

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December 25, 2025

Capsule Corner #4: Love and Death

(Spoilers?) Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024) (I wrote this capsule for InReview’s best of 2025 list.) Characters in Alain Guiraudie’s films express no inhibitions when following their flows of desire, and while, like more maudlin films that loftily uphold the Oscar-approved stamp of love triumphing over the torments of a constricting society, the sociopolitical environment might… Continue reading

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About Me

I am Anand Sudha, a PhD in Applied Physics who dabbles in film criticism. I am a blank slate (mostly) who patches pieces of personality from everyone and everything I admire. Just consider me as an insecure William Blake from Dead Man. Somehow, I have tricked some magazines like InReview, Film Companion and Ultra Dogme into publishing my work, which you can access by clicking on the “Published Writing” page to look at my work for other sites and magazines.

My older blog contains some embarrassing pieces written during the heady arrogance of youth , but you can click on the link below if you want to see some of my older writing. I have imported some links from the blog to this site as they contain my more recent work. This blog will be updated whenever I have the time and mainly contains pieces published only here.

In case you were wondering about the tagline, the end of cinema and criticism in the Godardian sense points to an end for a certain tradition or mode of the art form, paving the way for newer modes. Of course, that critic is me. Sometimes, candour is mistaken for arrogance, but more importantly, silly jokes using French words have to be made.

For those who want to contact me regarding articles, you can send an email to anand.narayanan.n@gmail.com.

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Capsule Corner #4: Love and Death