1988 · drama · political · allegory
Stars in Broad Daylight
Directed by Ossama Mohammed1h 45m1988
In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family members together in shared joy. The film exposes the divisive dynamics of patriarchal oppression, and the terrible connections between familial and sociopolitical violence.
Our read: Stars in Broad Daylight (1988) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · political · allegory entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / political, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
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