TellTellingCinema: Oscars and disabled people
In the second episode I talk about the 93th Academy Awards and the presence of disabled people during the gala.
In the second episode I talk about the 93th Academy Awards and the presence of disabled people during the gala.
The world of “Les Misérables” is a world taken straight from a mediocre rap song. It is not about a coherent social picture…
Gerwig is perhaps the first of Alcott’s adapters who could read between the lines – as if Alcott’s novel had to wait for the right times and sensitivity. As if it had to wait for a woman.
Mendes starts well, trying to portray the experience of war, the threat of waiting for conflict resolution and life in the trenches. What’s more, it uses a monumental mastershot extended to the length of the entire film.
Reviews of selected Academy Awards nominees.
The Polish candidate for the Academy Award, Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi, is a film that, at first glance, fulfills a wish for such Polish socially involved cinema that could deconstruct the society’s relations of power. A cinema that could criticize closed to human needs clergy and authorities which are traditionally caring only for their own interests. In fact, Komasa’s latest work fulfills this dream only on paper.
Shindisi is a story based on real events – or rather a war story about the heroic deeds of Georgian civilians and an ardent spirit that burns not only in young soldiers.
Young 14-year-old boy from Cambodia decides to give up his hard work in his family’s rice field and sets out alone with his dream of raising capital. It will soon turn out that the rice fields were in fact the only paradise he could count on.
Zilberman doesn’t just stop at the facts. He wonders where exactly the violence and radicalism of young people comes from (it should be remembered that Israel is now a very right-winged country, so in this sense Incitement are not only a story about past events, but also a warning about Israel’s future).
Is Joker just a warning against blind consumption, the deadly pursuit for wealth, ignoring the basic needs of people, etc., or pure glorification of violence?