US EditionFebruary’s new movies jump from rehab facilities to 1990s Iraq to a maybe apocalypse
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A film about the incarnated precariousness masterfully by Bastien Bouillon. An amazing (and funny) fable about Saddam Hussein's Iraq. A singular polar signed Kelly Reichardt on an apprentice museum robber... Zoom on the weekly releases.
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February’s new movies jump from rehab facilities to 1990s Iraq to a maybe apocalypse
As Hollywood gears up for the March 15 Academy Awards ceremony, the movie world continues to turn with February releases. Whether these five features will be part of next year’s Oscar conversation is anyone’s guess, but audiences reeling from a particularly brutal winter could certainly do worse than spending an evening with one of them.‘Honey Bunch’After Diana (Grace Glowicki) wakes up from a coma struggling to remember what happened, her husba…
Paris, France. Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi shows, with “The President’s Cake”, the terrible tradition of celebrating Saddam Hussein’s birthday and with it life under the dictator’s regime from the point of view of a girl. For his first film, which received the Golden House to the best prima opera in Cannes, the 37-year-old director resorted to his own childhood memories, when in Iraq, under international sanctions after his invasion of Kuwait in …
A rare Iraqi production, the journey of a little girl to make a dessert in honour of the head of state denounces the dictatorship in a dark satire.
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