Frank Falisi
Frank Falisi is a New Jersey-based writer and actor. His work has appeared in Bright Wall/ Dark Room, MUBI Notebook, Tone Glow, and LA Review of Books among others. He took part in Reverse Shot's Emerging Critics Workshop during the First Look 2023 festival.
By Frank Falisi
| April 3, 2024
The filmdemonstrates the way a certain strain of reactionary masculinity oppresses both the relatively privileged Thomas and the Malagasy characters, though a third act point-of-view shift ensures that this analysis does not equivocate the suffering of occupier and occupied.
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