HomeFront: Oscar picks, Ed Helms x 2, âRomeo & Julietâ
By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated April 23, 2021, 10:00 a.m.
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Director Chloe Zhao with actress Frances McDormand on the set of Nomadland. The film is the one to beat at this year s Oscars.Searchlight Pictures via AP
Welcome once again to HomeFront, where those of us in the limbo between vaccine shots have our noses pressed up against the window like a restless dog in the back of a minivan. We still need ways to stay entertained indoors, and the Globeâs experts have a slew of suggestions.
FILM: Sundayâs
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My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents immigration to Canada of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother s lonely upbringing, his father s fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course his parents, sister, uncles, cousins and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians.
My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives.