“Growing up we often didn’t see ourselves on screen and I’m very proud of where I come from.” “Coming to New Zealand, being Māori, we don’t see enough of ourselves on screen,” Waititi said. Waititi, the charismatic Māori director, took a moment to make a serious point in between an impromptu boxing match with the lectern microphone. In recent years, Canada has reckoned with its past treatment of Indigenous people, including heinous sterilization programs and forced-schooling systems.Īgainst that backdrop, Taika Waititi premiered his “Next Goal Wins,” a crowd-pleasing sports comedy about a woeful America Samoa soccer team, with a personal introduction and welcome from an Indigenous family. Before each screening runs a video message narrated by festival CEO Cameron Bailey, thanking Ontario’s native tribes for use of the land the festival takes place on. Such stories perhaps resonate especially at TIFF. The building, under amped-up pressure from the police, becomes a concrete front in its residents’ stifled struggle to build a life in France. His rash plans draw the protests of a young woman (Anta Diaw) who finds housing for immigrants and who, herself, lives in Batiment 5. “How can we live and die in a place like this?” a woman asks.Ī new mayor (Alexis Manenti) with a tenuous grasp of his constituents’ lives (he’s a a pediatrician) becomes set upon demolishing the building. “Les Indésirables” is set at Batiment 5, a decrepit public housing building where, in the film’s opening moments, a funeral procession carries a casket down a dim stairway because the elevator is out. Surrounded by ruins and desperate survivors, the building’s “residents only” policy is carried out to dark extremes.Ī tower block also looms at the center of Ladj Ly’s “Les Indésirables.” Ly, born and raised in the immigrant suburbs of Paris known as the banlieues, has cast potent tales of urban uprising and police oppression (his Oscar-nominated first feature “Les Misérables,” and “Athena,” which he co-wrote) in gripping epics. Um, who made the film - a hit in South Korea – amid skyrocketing housing prices, follows the increasingly grim and fearful decision-making of the building’s leadership, led by its elected delegate (Lee Byung-Hun). In the dystopian Korean thriller “Concrete Utopia,” directed by Um Tae-hwa, an earthquake destroys everything in Seoul - except for one high-rise apartment complex.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |