Directors Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kaufmann put their background in documentary to go use in this verite style character study which closely observes both the physical and psychological changes of its child protagonist Jamila (Khadija Jaafari) over the course of the five years during which the film was shot. As with Celine Sciamma's Girlhood, we can feel her sense of identity bend and flex as the youngster makes her way in an often indifferent world.
Jaafari is remarkably natural in the central role, a testimony no doubt to the work the directors put in with her before making the film. The youngster, making her fiction debut here, came into the filmmakers' orbit when they were shooting boxing doc Butterfly and she is first glimpsed at age nine as she dreams of a boxing career, the initial portion of the film recalling last year's documentary Lift Like A Girl in its celebration of young.
Jaafari is remarkably natural in the central role, a testimony no doubt to the work the directors put in with her before making the film. The youngster, making her fiction debut here, came into the filmmakers' orbit when they were shooting boxing doc Butterfly and she is first glimpsed at age nine as she dreams of a boxing career, the initial portion of the film recalling last year's documentary Lift Like A Girl in its celebration of young.
- 9/5/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Films include ’Ammonite’, ’Notturno’, ’New Order’ and ’Penguin Bloom’.
New work from Francis Lee, Werner Herzog, François Ozon, Gianfranco Rosi, Regina King and Mira Nair are among the line-up for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
As previously announced, Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia will open this year’s edition, which runs from September 10-19.
The festival will close with Nair’s A Suitable Boy (pictured), a six-part TV drama that debuted on the BBC in the UK last Sunday (July 26). Netflix has online global rights, excluding North America and China.
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New work from Francis Lee, Werner Herzog, François Ozon, Gianfranco Rosi, Regina King and Mira Nair are among the line-up for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
As previously announced, Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia will open this year’s edition, which runs from September 10-19.
The festival will close with Nair’s A Suitable Boy (pictured), a six-part TV drama that debuted on the BBC in the UK last Sunday (July 26). Netflix has online global rights, excluding North America and China.
Scroll down for full line-up...
- 7/30/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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