“Let it be Morning,” a wry, low key satire of Israeli-Palestinian tensions from the director of “The Band’s Visit,” opens at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center April 14.
Continuing is “RRR.”
“Let it be Morning” tells the story of of Sami (Alex Bakri) a Palestinian-born Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem who receives an invitation to his brother’s wedding forcing him to return to the Arab village where he grew up. After the wedding finishes, with no explanation, Sami’s hometown is put under a military blockade lockdown by Israeli soldiers. When chaos erupts overnight amongst the villagers stuck behind the wall due to the blockade, Sami is cut off from the outside world and trapped in an unexpected situation. As he deals with questions about his own identity and hidden secrets are revealed, Sami watches everything he holds dear begin to fall apart.
Written and directed by award-winning Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin (The Band’s Visit), and adapted from the international best-selling novel by Palestinian author Sayed Kashua, “Let it be Morning” is a film about a state of siege, both internal and external – centered around a man who has built a wall around his heart, and how that inner wall starts coming apart when an actual, real wall goes up around his hometown.
“Let it be Morning” is showing through April 27.
“RRR” is an exhilarating, spectacular mythologizing two real-life freedom fighters, Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan), who helped lead India’s fight for independence from the British Raj. Set in the 1920s before their fight for India’s independence began, “RRR” imagines a fictional meeting between the two, set into motion when a young Gond girl is stolen from her village by British soldiers. With a powerful message, staggeringly choreographed action sequences, and an all-timer (or three) of a musical number, “RRR” is sheer big-screen joy from start to finish.
“RRR” is showing at the Ross through April 20.
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