63%User score 63 percent
Palm Trees and Power Lines
2023 · Drama
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50 votes
In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.
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Tamik
badelf
August 15, 2024
SPOILERS Born from the Chechen Belsan school hostage incident, this award-winning film is a personal voice that we so often don't hear in the world. You can spend more than the first half of this film wondering why you're watching it. At first I thought, "oh, this is about an abusive father." And then, I thought, "oh, another film about a dysfunctional family." There is only the very slightest hint of the true monste…
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September 2, 2025
Ada's fists were clenched throughout resembling a state of infancy, and her body wound up tight, such a somatic symbolism of helplessness. It's so affecting that we surely feel the discomfort crawl around in our own bodies when seeing personal space being invaded and the ways of life stifled by different masculine forces in Ada's life. There's also a lack of motherly affection and a feminine exemplar within the famil…
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