Is it just me or does young Hugh Grant with a mustache look like Damiano David?
Anthi made me re-log this
It wasn’t the title nor the movie poster that enticed me, that’s the work of the S-N sisters who have watched this movie approx. a billion times. They didn’t disappoint. The editing absolutely playful, the music ironically romcom, the story so dramatic but also 💦
This movie has racked up a couple of mediocre reviews, being accused of “romanticizing German colonialism” and what not. I can see the argument, that the movie doesn’t center around the day-to-day life of the Herero, but the suffering is conveyed all to well. It’s exactly that pain, that makes you walk out of this movie wanting to go straight into the next pub. The only consolidation being, that as a society we have come so far - surely we…