Tag: Ariel Dorfman

How to break bread in no man’s land

A microcosmic reflection on the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine, ‘Grey Bees’ is Beckettian in its existential crises, dark humour and give and take between the two characters, Serhiich (Viktor Zhdanov) and Pashka (Vladimir Yamnenko). They’ve known each other for decades and are utterly indifferent to one another.

Secrets, shadows: Ethiopia’s scars

FILM REVIEW: FINDING SALLY. A WOMAN STANDS and calls the name of her long absent sister in a wide valley in Africa. The keening sound reverberates eerily, but beautifully. It is even in tone, mournful in its sense of plea. The gesture offers goosebump-raising closure to a bitter […]