AHFW’S Movie of the Week takes a trip halfway around the world. Turkey is the setting for director/co-writer Denize Gamze Erguven’s heartbreaking, Oscar-nominated drama about the perilous fate of five sisters in “Mustang”. “Mustang” (2015) – “Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has” – Anita Brookner. For five, giggling, likable sisters – raised by their grandmother and ranging in ages between (about) 9 and 16 – they misspend their time like any group of schoolgirls. On one fateful day, Selma (Tugba Sungur), Sonay (Ilayda Akdagun),…
Day: June 20, 2020
It’s okay to walk away from ‘You Should Have Left’
“You Should Have Left” – “Violent or upsetting dreams are the mind’s attempt to release the pressures of our daily thoughts and fears.” Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) frequently listens to self-help audiobooks these days. You see, he has bad dreams, and the latest includes his 6-year-old daughter Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex): a creepy man, who partially conceals his face with a baseball hat and glasses, attacks Ella in her bedroom. This horrible visual would undoubtedly send any semi-caring father into a tizzy. Theo, however, is a full-caring father, and outside…