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Initially reluctant and cold towards her niece, Wanda begins to look at her with fascination and proposes a journey to their family’s pre-war home to fulfill Ida’s wish. This “odd couple” – as one of the characters calls them – will get to know each other and confront the family’s wartime history during their visit to their hometown.
5 days ago · The film’s slapstick version of Nazi Germany fails to engage with its true horrors: the Telegraph critic Robbie Collin claimed the film “sentimentalises and trivialises the Holocaust”. The genocide has been folded into existing genres: such as Holocaust thrillers, from Black Book to Inglourious Basterds. There’s even a micro-genre of ...
4 days ago · The NYPFF welcomes you to the 19th annual celebration of recent films from Poland! As the only continuous presenter of Polish cinema in New York for almost two decades, we are proud to offer seven features as well as shorts that reflect the best of filmmaking from the region. Among these are Agnieszka Holland's "Green Border" - a refugee drama ...
3 days ago · On the verge of taking her vows to become a Catholic nun, Anna meets her only surviving relative after WWII, Wanda Gruz. Upon that introduction, she learns her parents were Jewish, and the ensuing exploration is full of surprises and grace. It won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first Polish film to do so.
3 days ago · Moods. Dramatic, Thrilling, Weird. The 2016 outing of South-Korean auteur director Park Chan-wook (maker of Oldboy and Stoker) once again shifts attention to the dark side of what makes us human: betrayal, violence, and transgression. Based on the 2002 novel Fingersmith by British author Sarah Waters, The Handmaiden revolves around the love of ...
1 day ago · Website. oscar .go .com /nominees /best-picture. The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the ...
6 days ago · However, in the first quarter of this year, there has been a reversal of these long-term trends. In Q1 2024 the share of audience demand in the US for foreign language shows was 13.6%, which is ...
