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Beate – Socio-Economic Farce

Darrel Manson2 years ago2 years ago04 mins

Never mind politics, economics is where you may find really strange bedfellows. In the Italian film Beate (which translates to ?Blessed?), from Samad Zarmandili, two very different groups of women join forces to try to stave off the greed around them. The first group of women are the workers at the Veronica lingerie factory. When…

False Confessions – A Farce in the Wrong Time

Darrel Manson6 years ago6 years ago02 mins

Farce, to me, occupies a place between the Shakespearean comedies of people falling in love and the modern romcom. False Confessions is a 21st century update of an 18th century French farce. If it seems stagy it is because of more than just its historical roots.