As Above, So Below
In: How Iranian cinema triumphed at the Berlin Film Festival. Mohammad Rasoulof's There Is No Evil takes top prize while documentaries from Lebanon and Israel intrigue and compel - by Joseph Fahim in Middle East Eye on 10.3.2020
Some of these sequences overstay their welcome; others grow repetitive. But this is a sensitive, mature work; poetic, playful, and cynical, Francis demystifies the myth of the Moon and how it is commodified by governments and corporations.
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by Jim Quilty in Daily Star, 9.7.2020
Berlin was the last major festival to run its course before international film events cancelled or retreated online, and cinema exhibitors shuttered.
Responding via email, she said she was unsure how the pandemic had affected the reading of her film.
The reflection, she said, was an existential one.
Francis ruminates upon her subject from several perspectives.
Francis never mentions this, or the fact that the Latin text was translated from an older Arabic original.
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