Nobody titles their film “Eel” if they don’t want critics to reach for the adjective “slippery,” and Chu Chun-Teng’s woozily gorgeous first feature invites it from the off. Its story, slender but ...
Gifted cinematographer Nguyễn Vinh Phúc (“Cu Li Never Cries,” “Taste”) shoots land, water and rope-burnt flesh alike ... Red and blue and hot all over, “Eel” demands, like many ...