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Funny Boy

2020

Deepa Mehta

Agam Darshi, Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Seema Biswas ...

6.1

42

Drama A young boy falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings in Sri Lanka.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"If there is a moral in Deepa Mehta’s tale of gay teenage love, Funny Boy, it is how small individual drama looks when set against the bloodshed and injustice of history."	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Funny Boy certainly couldn’t be considered hard-edged art cinema (...) Nevertheless, it is undeniably executed with unsentimental intelligence, integrity and some bracing mischievousness."	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"Mehta’s elaborate long takes contribute to the general sense of tumult, but the film never fully shakes the sense of stating the obvious"	NEU
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"Funny Boy deserves commendation for telling a culturally specific story that hasn’t been told before (...) It’s built around a complicated, one-of-a-kind human being that viewers can only hope to understand and empathize with"	POS
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke The Guardian	"The storytelling works better in the first half (...) The second part of the film is much less successful (...) In the end the story is told rather blandly, the edges sentimentally smoothed down (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Overstuffed but absorbing (...) A spirited, enveloping evocation of a challenging time and place"	POS
United States	Roxana Hadadi rogerebert.com	"[Its subplots have] some insightful elements, but they are so tonally mismatched (...) that 'Funny Boy' never achieves a real balance (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Jude Dry IndieWire	"A luminous coming-of-age tale seen through the eyes of a relatable yet entirely unique experience"	POS
United States	Tracy Brown Los Angeles Times	"For someone fairly unfamiliar with the Sri Lankan civil war, 'Funny Boy' makes the history accessible and relevant in our own incredibly polarized times."	POS

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