James Wham
James Wham is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Film Comment, Cineaste, and The Quietus.
By James Wham
| October 10, 2019
Rather than servicing the melodrama of the film, as in Black Coal’s mood-washed frames of neon red and icy blue, Diao’s flamboyant visual style here works sardonically—accentuating evil in a strange, unfamiliar way.