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More Covers a lot of different themes and topics just by following one family… illness and the different ways people attempt to treat said illness (homeopathy, expensive western medicine, and spiritual exorcisms) is a thread throughout. child marriage and the resentment it creates once the couple is left examining their relationship in a house empty of children (one gone to madrasa and the other dead). how communities respond to and navigate societal upheaval—denial on one hand and active resistance on the other.
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More Update: my original review uses Oscar Al-Halabiye's birth name and assumedly deadname. I have updated my review to reflect her chosen name, but I acknowledge as one of the reviews marked as "most popular" for this film, I have influenced many other users to deadname Al-Halabiye. I sincerely apologize for this.
thank you to user wellsbering for pointing this out.
5 stars for Oscar Al-Halabiye, 1/2 stars for the interviewer/director whose presence/assumptive, repetitive questions add nothing. I guess there's some…
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A straightforward, sweet, and critical food film grounded in African immigrant working class community.
Director Sarah Maldoror is very good at balancing the deep tragedies of life with the small everyday joys of it—skipping with the neighborhood children, lying on the grass during lunch break, sharing meals over a table.
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