Baffled as to why they clearly shot this entire film in London (including shots of the London skyline, filming inside a metro substation, and utilizing a classic high-rise council estate as the main character's home), yet had two British lead actors use American accents throughout the entire film. Made about as much sense as the plot of this film
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Water Has No Borders 2021
Ostensibly a documentary about a hydroelectric dam and power station situated on the Georgian-Abkhaz border, Water Has No Borders (2021) instead acts as a flawed exploration into the pain of closed borders.
Read a full review here: lossi36.com/2023/09/05/going-to-abkhazia-is-like-stepping-into-a-fairytale-its-impossible-maradia-tsaavas-film-water-has-no-borders/
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Fig Tree 2018
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Fig Tree, directed by Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian, is a beautifully tragic coming-of-age romance set in 1989 during the Ethiopian Civil War. Based in part on Davidian’s own memories of growing up in wartorn Ethiopia, which she left at age 11, the film does not shy away from portraying the horrors of war. In one heartbreaking scene, Mina and Eli find a legless soldier (Tilahune Asagere) trying to commit suicide. Once he gains his strength back, he attempts to crawl away —…
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