Vira Sathidar, Cultural Figure Who Fought Indiaâs Caste System, Dies at 62
After a career of activism on behalf of the lower castes, Mr. Sathidar was cast in a movie that reflected his life. He died of complications of Covid-19.
Vira Sathidar protested the deeply rooted caste system in India, under which those at the bottom are systematically abused. He played the role of a similar activist in the 2014 movie âCourtâ; he is shown here during shooting.Credit.Zoo Entertainment
May 5, 2021, 2:39 p.m. ET
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‘My Wonderful Wanda’ Review: A Polish Home-Care Worker Sparks Change With Her Swiss Employers Variety 1 hr ago
Money can buy outside help, opportunity and material possessions, but not happiness in “My Wonderful Wanda,” a punchy satire from Swiss auteur Bettina Oberli (“Late Bloomers”). Taking a wry but empathetic approach to the phenomenon of care migration, Oberli and her co-writer Cooky Ziesche focus on the changing relationship between one privileged Swiss family and their financially fragile Polish home-care worker over nine months. Naturalistically shot and structured as three chapters and an epilogue, it’s an engaging, mostly well-acted tale, full of surprising twists, even if some seem a bit too on the nose. Opening in theaters and virtual cinemas on April 23, this Zeitgeist Films release should segue from international film festival favorite to modest art-house hit.
Engagingly played, but runs out of satirical steam.
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Marthe Keller plays a wealthy matriarch whose family is dealt shocking news in an ensemble comic drama from Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli.
My Wonderful Wanda takes its title (zingier in the original German:
Wanda, Mein Wunder) from a line of dialogue, an affectionate and somewhat deluded exclamation by a 70-year-old bedridden Swiss man to his 30-something Polish caretaker. The two have a secret, a side deal, that will disrupt the already shaky serenity of the man s family and draw hers into a clash of cultures and classes. Bettina Oberli is more interested in the interplay of her characters than a barbed look at geopolitics, an approach that clicks only to a point in this well-performed but overlong and uneven feature.
‘My Wonderful Wanda’: Film Review Sheri Linden
My Wonderful Wanda takes its title (zingier in the original German:
Wanda, Mein Wunder) from a line of dialogue, an affectionate and somewhat deluded exclamation by a 70-year-old bedridden Swiss man to his 30-something Polish caretaker. The two have a secret, a side deal, that will disrupt the already shaky serenity of the man’s family and draw hers into a clash of cultures and classes. Bettina Oberli is more interested in the interplay of her characters than a barbed look at geopolitics, an approach that clicks only to a point in this well-performed but overlong and uneven feature.
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