The Wind Rises (Japan, 2013) is a very different kind of feature from Hayao Miyazaki, the beloved filmmaker and animation legend famed for his lush, ambitious, inventive fantasies and mythical adventures. It was a passion project for the director and he chose it as his fitting swan song, a final feature before retiring from filmmaking […]
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‘Ali and Nino’ – The birth of Azerbaijan on Netflix
Ali and Nino (2016) tells the story of the brief independence of Azerbaijan after World War I through the love story of Ali (Adam Bakri), a Russian-educated Muslim from a noble family in Baku, Azerbaijan, and Nino (María Valverde), an Orthodox Christian from Georgia and the daughter of a Russian Prince (Mandy Patinkin). They are […]