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3 terrific new film releases now on South Bay Film Society Virtual Cinema:
ANOTHER ROUND
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Representing Denmark at the 2021 Oscars
ANOTHER ROUND is a fun, moving, life-affirming and thought-provoking drama about friendship, freedom, love – and alcohol. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, directed and written by Thomas Vinterberg and co-writer Tobias Lindholm (the director and writers of THE HUNT).
Audience Awards at AFI Latin American and Chicago Latino Film Festivals
From Argentine director Juan José Campanella (director of the Oscar Award-winning The Secret in Their Eyes), comes THE WEASELS’ TALE, a witty comedic thriller. It’s Sunset Boulevard meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, with a Latin twist. Financial gain, seduction, betrayal, and memories run amok are the elements that create the recipe for this delightful game of
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Sentenced to death, a young woman seeks atonement on live television in writer-director Massoud Bakhshi’s “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness.” The riveting and superbly acted Iranian drama, based on a real variety show, poses a moral crucible born out of a theocratic system that disfavors women amid the heightened tension of the on-camera spectacle.
On Yalda Night, a Persian winter solstice celebration, Maryam (Sadaf Asgari) leaves prison to attend the late evening program “Joy of Forgiveness” to ask the adult daughter of the man she accidentally killed her own much older husband to spare her life. With frenetic energy, cinematographer Julian Atanassov’s camera tracks the behind-the-scenes chaos as producer Mr. Ayat (Babak Karimi, known for Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman”) wrangles musical acts and famous guests before the surreal main event: preventing a hanging.
Sadaf Asgari as Maryam in “Yalda. A Night for Forgiveness.” Photo courtesy of Film Movement,
“Yalda. A Night for Forgiveness,” masterfully written and directed by Massoud Bakhshi, is beyond imagination. Focusing on the aspect of Sharia law that legally sanctions “an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth,” Bakhshi brings us onto the set of “Joy of Forgiveness,” a reality show broadcast live that brings together a condemned murderer and the daughter of the man she killed. As can happen privately, the aggrieved party may “forgive” the perpetrator after which there is a payment of “blood money,” a sum determined by the importance of the victim.
New movies to stream this week: Wild Mountain Thyme, The Stand In and more
Michael O Sullivan, The Washington Post
Dec. 10, 2020
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