Culture – Page 270 – People's World

‘Clemency’: Dead woman walking, a capital film on capital punishment

November 27, 2019 By Ed Rampell

Alfre Woodard, one of our elder stateswomen of the acting profession, delivers a powerhouse of a performance as the prison warden, Bernardine Williams, Clemency’s main character.

‘The Third Wife’ recounts a woman’s life in rural 19th-century Vietnam

November 26, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The film is the Vietnamese submission for the 77th Golden Globe Awards. It has already won various film festival awards at other cities.

‘Atlantics (Atlantique)’: An African ‘Get Out’ type of movie

November 25, 2019 By Ed Rampell

In her feature film directorial debut, the young Diop, who is already an accomplished actress in France, proves with Atlantics she also has a bright future as a metteur en scène.

Netflix’s ‘American Son’: Gut-wrenching examination of race and the American dream

November 25, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

It’s powerful storytelling that will make you feel particularly angry, but may leave you frustrated, as it gives no pointers on where to direct that anger next.

Latin America at the Toronto International Film Festival

November 22, 2019 By Bill Meyer

Cuba, plagued by endless U.S. boycotts and sanctions, has little money left to sustain and develop their cultural exports.