The brilliance of some movies just isn’t evident on a first viewing, whether it be due to our age or the film’s density; here are some that needed a second watch to fully appreciate.
While ‘Fifth Generation Chinese Cinema’ technically refers to the films produced by the fifth generation of graduates from the Beijing Film Academy following Mao Zedong’s ‘Cultural Revolution,’ the connotations of the phrase are far deeper in meaning than simply referring to a group of people.