Review
In terms of genre, I would describe Wildflower as a sort of Hallmark Channel-style drama, a quirky but heartwarming tale of a scrappy girl who overcomes the odds to help her family stay together.
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Director Alice Diop’s films explore, with great sensitivity and little sentimentality, the generational effects of colonialism and racism.
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There’s no place like home at two local film festivals.
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In Turkey, liberal filmmakers must find ways to address system wide abuses without offending the censors: the opening and closing films at this week’s Turkish Film Festival make good use of that strategy.
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This collector is happy to have Luis Russell: At the Swing Cats Ball with all its faults.
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What emerged was a lithe, almost Shakespearean rendition, complete with moments of unexpected humor and an infectious dramatic vitality.
Read MorePotentially Dangerous is a documentary about an era during World War II when Italians living in the United States were persecuted and, in some cases interned, as “enemy aliens” because the US was at war with Italy.
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A bit of spring cleaning this time around, with recommendations of some fairly recent viewing choices you may have missed.
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James Hamilton’s biography of British landscape painter John Constable is a highly accomplished, beautifully composed, revealing, and richly entertaining work of scholarship.
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Festival of American Song Records has released an elegant, touching performance of the totally delightful half-hour long “Picnic Cantata.”
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