NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2022 (April 20-May 1, 2022)

[Chris Knipp]

REHANA/REHANA MARYAM NOOR (Abdullah Mohammad Saad 2021)

This film from Bangladesh (which we don't see films from very often) draws attention with its relentless portrait of a feminist medical school teacher whose obsession with a sexual harassment case goes way too far. The monomaniacal focus of the one-on-one scenes and the weird pervasive blue filter didn't appeal to me, but this film has drawn admiring reviews from some and was the first Bangladeshi film included at the Cannes festival, in the Un Certain Regard section.

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Friday, April 29
6:15pm, FLC Walter Reade Theater
Sunday, May 1
5:45pm, MoMA T2