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Darrel Manson

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The Antenna – Slimy Political Metaphor

The Antenna – Slimy Political Metaphor

Sep 30, 2020

The Turkish horror film The Antenna, directed by Or?un Behram, is more about creepiness that fright. It is also about a world that is trending toward the insidious control of day to day life. The film is set in a mildly dystopic Turkey. Mehmet works as the intendant...

The Keeper -Finding Forgiveness

The Keeper -Finding Forgiveness

Sep 30, 2020

Based on a true story, The Keeper, from director Marcus H Rosenm?ller, is the story of a German POW who in the post-war years becomes one of the most famous football (soccer to Americans) players in England. Along the way the story looks the difficulty of forgiving...

Cuties – Growing Up Fast

Cuties – Growing Up Fast

Sep 30, 2020

Yes, Ma?mouna Doucour??s Cuties (Mignonnes) has created a great deal of controversy. I wouldn?t categorize that controversy as a tempest in a teapot, because the film does revolve around the sexualization of young women, but in a reflective and critical manner, not in...

Native Son – 1951 Film Still Speaks

Native Son – 1951 Film Still Speaks

Sep 25, 2020

?Fear has haunted Thomas to the very end.? Richard Wright?s 1940 novel Native Son is one of the standards of African-American literature. It has found its way to the screen a few times. The first such film, directed by Belgian director Pierre Chenal, was made in...

Myth of a Colorblind France – Black Expats

Sep 24, 2020

Paris has been a haven for American expatriot artists of all sorts, but especially for African-Americans. In Myth of a Colorblind France, from Alan Govenar, we get to see that history in the 20th century and how it continues today. However, just because...

Draupadi Unleashed – Lavish Melodrama

Draupadi Unleashed – Lavish Melodrama

Sep 23, 2020

?Your destiny is set.? Draupadi Unleashed, written and directed by Tony Stopperan, based on a book by Nisha Sabharwal, is the story of a young woman who struggles with her place in the very structured patriarchal society of aristocratic Indian society in the early...

God of the Piano – An Ambitious Tale

God of the Piano – An Ambitious Tale

Sep 18, 2020

Is ambition a good thing or a setting for disaster? Certainly it can challenge people to great things, but it also may lead to our downfalls. In the Israeli film God of the Piano, directed by Itay Tal, we see the darker side of ambition as it plays out in the life of...