Bangladesh’s Oscar entry is a restrained sports drama – Blogging Sole

Bangladesh’s Oscar entry is a restrained sports drama

 – Blogging Sole

In Bangladesh, sports Polly horses – or the game of wrestling – is a methodical and precise affair, a tone that Iqbal Chaudhry reinvented in his first film, “The Wrestler.” Stretching the line between observational and indirect, the film seems designed to dazzle and frustrate in equal measure, gesturing toward masculine boundaries in an often … Read more