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fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

"My Father's Shadow" Is Intensely-Yet Obliquely-Autobiographical

Written by Davies's older brother, Wale, the film follows two young brothers during Nigeria's 1993 Presidential election, which offered hope for democracy after a decade of military dictatorship. In the movie's first dramatic scene, achingly redolent of memory, the brothers-the older is eleven, the younger eight-loll in front of their family's house, snacking, grousing, playing with paper action figures, trying to fill the solitude and the silence around them with banter and bravado.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Moving: an elegant portrait of 90s Japan through tweenage eyes

A 12-year-old girl's parents' separation forces her into impulsive acts and emotional maturity, revealing family fractures through cinematic long takes and childhood perspective.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

I am quite tough': Schindler's List star Embeth Davidtz on her explosive film about Rhodesia's final days

Embeth Davidtz, US-born and raised under apartheid, directed her first film at 60, adapting a memoir that reveals colonial racism through a child's eyes.
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