eliamani

eliamani

African (+Diaspora) film but also what’s good is good🎏
📍DC/NYC/BXL

Favorite films

  • Black Girl
  • West Beirut
  • Oh, Sun
  • Atlantics

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  • Dégradé

    ★★½

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★★

  • Neptune Frost

    ★★½

  • Africa, I Will Fleece You

    ★★★★★

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  • Dégradé

    Dégradé

    ★★½

    Eh. It was a cool concept. I appreciated the pedestrian take on life in Gaza. On a film level though it had a lot of trouble finding its central energy. So many different storylines for one room— almost felt like 10 different films and not in a cohesively chaotic way.

  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★★

    I am still so disturbed by the images of the settlers actually shooting Palestinians like dogs and the IOF soldiers just chewing gum while looking right at it. I pray Allah keeps me alive for the day Palestine sees freedom. I truly MUST witness their victory if I had to be traumatized by their brutalization all my life. I MUST fr.

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  • Black

    Black

    ½

    I have a hundred and five things to say about this film. Perhaps more than anything is the writing is absolutely horrible and the cheapest I’ve ever seen. The use of rape is empty, vicious, and extreme with literally almost no narrative justification. It seemed the whole film was a disjointed personal research of rape for rapes sake. Through a lense that was somehow sickly sexual. We won’t get into the star crossed lover stock story. Either way, this film…

  • Warfare

    Warfare

    ½

    Morally reprehensible trash where Americans center themselves and not the one million Iraqis they annihilated on the pretense of an admitted lie. Wonder if they finally find those “weapons of mass destruction” in this film!

    Also not lost on me this islamist-savage dehumanizing propaganda is being dropped during the Gaza genocide. The devil works hard but Hollywood’s CIA/DoD media liasons work a hellauva lot harder!

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