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The influence of La Haine is apparent when you take a look at almost every French film dealing with migrants. A somewhat awkward position for me as going against the critical hive mind, I don’t think quite as highly of it as most people. Misérables unfortunately offers nothing new, in the way something like DivinesContinue reading “Pune International Film Festival Day#2: Les Misérables”

If there was a theme to this year’s festival, class warfare seemed to be it. None finer example than this film, Luis Buñuel’s typically funny and probing Viridiana. Held up for release for 19 years in it’s native Spain, the film tells the story of the nun in the title (Silvia Pinal) as she comesContinue reading “Pune International Film Festival Day #1: Viridiana, Bacurau”