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Lost Country (2023) ‘Sarajevo Film Festival’ Movie Review – Jovan Ginic tenderly anchors complex, probing mother-son drama

Debanjan Dhar — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 03:39:39 +0000

After a long hiatus, Vladimir Perisic’s return to direction with Lost Country takes up a compelling lens. Posited at the troubled crossroads between family and fascism, the screenplay by Perisic and Alice Winocour looks at a teenager, Stefan’s (Jovan Ginic) consciousness, his complicated feelings stemming from the clash between his mother’s political identity and the…

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All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White (2023) ‘MIFF’ Movie Review: Delicate, restrained drama of queer discovery

Debanjan Dhar — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 03:29:37 +0000

Babatunde Apalowo’s directorial, All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White (2023), is geared toward a psychological journey its protagonist, Bambino (Tope Tedela), undertakes. He is very hemmed in as an individual, unwilling to really let anyone in. Working as a delivery guy in the metropolis of Lagos, despite offering generous help…

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Baan (2023) ‘Sarajevo Film Festival’ Movie Review: Visually arresting but verbally stodgy

Debanjan Dhar — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:58:19 +0000

What does belonging mean? How can one experience it when home, that primary site of belonging, evokes a disjointed, ruptured emotion, not quite lending ease or stability? Leonor Teles’ film Baan captures the elusiveness within the homing instinct. Her film chafes against geographical and spatial fixities. The protagonist, L (Carolina Miragaia), an architect, wonders how…

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Fairy Garden (2023) ‘Sarajevo Film Festival’ Review: Fascinating but curiously half-baked documentary

Debanjan Dhar — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 08:56:12 +0000

Director Gergo Somogyvari’s documentary Fairy Garden has the unlikeliest pairings fronting it. The nineteen-year-old Fanni, who is grappling with her sex transition, is living with the sixty-year-old Laci in a ramshackle place situated in the woods of Hungary. When the film opens, she has been with him for nearly two years. It is an extraordinarily…

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2023) ‘MIFF’ Movie Review: Treasure box of dazzling peculiarities

Debanjan Dhar — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:23:48 +0000

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2023) ‘MIFF’ Movie Review: There’s something undeniably lovely and refreshing in watching stories in a film sprout and peck into each other. Stories teeming in wackiness gain another meta-textual layer of resonance as they curl into each other, defying constructed authorial boundaries predicating a particular character and setting. Pierre Foldes’ directorial…

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Blaga’s Lessons (2023) ‘Sarajevo Film Festival’ Movie Review: Terrifically disconcerting, morally murky thriller

Debanjan Dhar — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:45:10 +0000

Blaga’s Lessons (2023) ‘Sarajevo Film Festival’ Movie Review: In Stephan Komandarev’s directorial, the 70-year-old protagonist, Blaga, has just recently lost her husband, who worked as a cop. Blaga is trying to book a plot for his grave in her Bulgarian town of Shumen. A deal has been made. But one day, Blaga receives a call…

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