I, Daniel Blake (2016)
This year’s Palme d’Or winner illuminates the injustice of English welfare with slender rays of humour and humanity.
Objet d’Art – Riding Uphill: The Shifting Symbolism of Wadjda’s Bicycle
In Objet d’Art, we take a look at the use of inanimate objects in film and music and their changing meanings, aesthetics and emotional purpose in different contexts. The bicycle is a potent, versatile symbol of freedom. It’s a symbol of the freedom of unconfined, joyful movement – in The Muppet Movie, the miraculous freedom…
Wadjda (2013)
Wadjda is deeply influenced by cinematic history. Writer/director Haifaa al-Mansour has stated a significant influence on her film was neorealist cinema, and it’s not hard to see the influence of a film like Bicycle Thieves in this story of a young Saudi girl’s quest to purchase a bicycle, or the way al-Mansour’s camera creates a…
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