Now, friends, while we're all waiting for the Elric film to take shape and pass the time contributing suggestions about actors, music score, FX studios etc, we shouldn't forget to go to see films.
I suggest we start a "recommendations" thread (not threat) right here and now!
I saw "OSAMA" by Siddiq Barmak recently and was very impresed, both by the story and the reality of it - and by the acting! The audience was in part composed by Afghanis living here, they came in numbers and seemed equally if not even more impressed. A bit abrupt in the ending, but - wow - you are shaken by the fate of the girl "Osama" in the bullet-riddled, dehumanized Kabul of the Taliban-era.
Synopsis as found on http://joblo.com/upcomingmovies/movies.php?id=28 :
A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their houses without a "legal companion." With her husband and brother dead there is no one left to support the family, and without being able to leave the house the mother is left with nowhere to turn. Feeling she has no other choice, she disguises her daughter as a boy. Now called Osama, the girl embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity. Inspired by a true story, Osama is the first entirely Afghan film shot since the rise and fall of the Taliban.
I suggest we start a "recommendations" thread (not threat) right here and now!
I saw "OSAMA" by Siddiq Barmak recently and was very impresed, both by the story and the reality of it - and by the acting! The audience was in part composed by Afghanis living here, they came in numbers and seemed equally if not even more impressed. A bit abrupt in the ending, but - wow - you are shaken by the fate of the girl "Osama" in the bullet-riddled, dehumanized Kabul of the Taliban-era.
Synopsis as found on http://joblo.com/upcomingmovies/movies.php?id=28 :
A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their houses without a "legal companion." With her husband and brother dead there is no one left to support the family, and without being able to leave the house the mother is left with nowhere to turn. Feeling she has no other choice, she disguises her daughter as a boy. Now called Osama, the girl embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity. Inspired by a true story, Osama is the first entirely Afghan film shot since the rise and fall of the Taliban.
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