Uberto Pasolini’s Nowhere Special, screening at IFFK 2021, is moving without being melodramatic This film about a father and a son is designed as sad but not depressing. Baradwaj Rangan February 13, 2021 13:16:16 IST Still from Nowhere Special. YouTube
At some level, John (James Norton) is the bestest dad ever. That’s what his four-year-old, Michael (Daniel Lamont), might say. John combs Michael’s hair for lice. John reads Michael a bedtime story,
very patiently, with no indication of the pain he is going through due to a terminal illness. And John is trying to find Michael a new set of parents. He’s trying to get Michael adopted by a couple before he dies. John tells a prospective couple, a very rich couple, “He deserves a normal family… All the opportunities I never had.” John is a window-washer.
OUT: January 7
Boston couple Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) suffer an unthinkable tragedy at the hands of a flustered midwife. Kornél Mundruczó s drama follows Martha over the next twelve months as she fights to survive relationship difficulties and a trial. Martin Scorsese is among the producers. Streaming on Netflix.
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Noël Coward s genteel supernatural comedy – first performed as a play in 1941 and filmed by David Lean in 1945 – gets a suitably all-star revival. A recently married couple (Dan Stevens and Isla Fisher) are haunted by the ghost of the husband s first wife (Leslie Mann), so call in the services of Judi Dench s dotty medium.