Your Foreign Film Review
Your instructor will be assigning you each a “foreign” or other-than-mainstream-subgroup-member film to watch and in a minimum twopage paper review it for the class by responding to the following questions:
1. What did you learn about another culture through watching your film?
2. Do you feel that that depiction was ethnically authentic or Hollywoodized?
3. What specifically did you likeabout the film that would induce you to recommend it to your friends?
4. What specifically did you dislikeabout the film to dissuade you from recommending it to your friends?
The Film Matches:
(Your instructor has supplied direct hyperlinks to IMDB for each director so that you can appreciate the international range of their backgrounds. He or she will be assigning the films early in the term.)
Devil’s Playground (2002) Director Lucy Walker
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)Director Yimou Zhang
The Fast Runner(2002) Director Zacharias Kunuk
Witness (1985) Director Peter Weir
The Magdalene Sisters (2002) Director Peter Mullan
Once Were Warriors (1994) Director Lee Tamahori
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)Director Danny Boyle
A Separation (2011( Director) Asghar Farhadi
any movie will do