Türkiye’s Oscar submission gets lost in toxic masculinity – Blogging Sole

Türkiye’s Oscar submission gets lost in toxic masculinity

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At the beginning of Turkish director Zeki Demirkuboz’s long-awaited and frustratingly misjudged Life — the director’s first film in seven years, and now serving as a Turkish international feature film being submitted for the Oscars — a young woman named Hekran escapes the claws of an impending scheme. Marriage disappears. We learn a lot, not … Read more

Maria Bakalova holds a crazy Oscar for Bulgaria – Blogging Sole

Maria Bakalova holds a crazy Oscar for Bulgaria

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The fall of communism in Bulgaria was not precisely a complete secession: with the country’s Communist Party giving up its political monopoly in 1989 to make way for parliamentary democracy, the party was able to win the country’s first free elections the following year. The panic of unfamiliar freedoms escalates to chaotic effect in “Triumph,” … Read more