Alamy
Director Myriam Verreault’s Innu drama following a pair of childhood friends (Sharon Ishpatao Fontaine and Yamie Grégoire) whose friendship is tested as their lives evolve in very different ways gives new meaning to the idea that what is specific can be universal. Verreault and co-screenwriter Naomi Fontaine draw audiences into the story of two girls who share the same promise of many their age: to be there for each other forever. Using their tightknit First Nations community as a backdrop to highlight the prevalence of love and familial protection, as well as a proliferation of drugs and abuse, the filmmakers focus on the complex relationship between the young women whose lives and desires send them in opposite directions as they grow up. The ardent Shaniss (Grégoire) becomes a mother early in her life and often leans on Mikuan (Fontaine) and her family for support. Meanwhile, Mikuan takes an interest in poetry and falls for a white boy whose mere presence suggests to Sh
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The Night is available on digital platforms from 2Â April.
In The Night, a young couple check into a haunted hotel and discover theyâve brought more ghosts with them than they find on the premises. Itâs a familiar set-up, though director and co-writer Kourosh Ahari doesnât fall into the trap of rationalising every phantasm away as a manifestation of unresolved issues. Among Ahariâs earlier work is a short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilmanâs classic psychological/feminist ghost story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892); here, he draws on a variety of film texts â including such spooky hotel dramas as The Shining (1980), Barton Fink (1991), 1408 (2007) and The Innkeepers (2011) â to ground his own original take.
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DESERVEDLY nominated for six Academy Awards, you can’t help but be swept away by this exquisitely tender and heartfelt story of a Korean-US family in pursuit of the American Dream in 1980s Arkansas.
Though totally fictional, writer-director Lee Isaac Chung was inspired by his own family and provides a fresh new take on the immigrant tale. It is a touching love letter to his own parents and their tenacity to forge a new life in the US and to provide their children with a more promising future.
The film, the produced by Brad Pitt and named after a peppery Korean herb, follows the pressures that a Korean family of four face as they move from California to a small farm in rural Arkansas and how their lives are upended with the arrival of the maternal grandmother (played superbly by Yuh-Jung Youn).