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Funny Boy

  • 2020
  • 1 Std. 49 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,5/10
1017
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Funny Boy (2020)
Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who 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.
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Es erforscht Arjies sexuelles Erwachen von einem kleinen Jungen zu einem Teenager, der sich in einen männlichen Klassenkameraden verliebt, gerade als die politischen Spannungen zwischen den ... Alles lesenEs erforscht Arjies sexuelles Erwachen von einem kleinen Jungen zu einem Teenager, der sich in einen männlichen Klassenkameraden verliebt, gerade als die politischen Spannungen zwischen den Singhalesen und Tamilen eskalieren.Es erforscht Arjies sexuelles Erwachen von einem kleinen Jungen zu einem Teenager, der sich in einen männlichen Klassenkameraden verliebt, gerade als die politischen Spannungen zwischen den Singhalesen und Tamilen eskalieren.

  • Regie
    • Deepa Mehta
  • Drehbuch
    • Deepa Mehta
    • Shyam Selvadurai
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Agam Darshi
    • Nimmi Harasgama
    • Shivantha Wijesinha
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,5/10
    1017
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Deepa Mehta
    • Drehbuch
      • Deepa Mehta
      • Shyam Selvadurai
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Agam Darshi
      • Nimmi Harasgama
      • Shivantha Wijesinha
    • 21Benutzerrezensionen
    • 22Kritische Rezensionen
    • 62Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Auszeichnungen
      • 5 Gewinne & 7 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Agam Darshi
    Agam Darshi
    • Radha
    Nimmi Harasgama
    Nimmi Harasgama
    • Amma
    Shivantha Wijesinha
    Shivantha Wijesinha
    • Jegan
    Seema Biswas
    Seema Biswas
    • Ammachi
    Ali Kazmi
    Ali Kazmi
    • Appa
    Peter Cockett
    Peter Cockett
    • TV Announcer
    Rajeev Colton
    • The King
    Arush Nand
    Arush Nand
    • Young Arjie
    Brandon Ingram
    • Older Arjie
    Orlando Giraldo
    Orlando Giraldo
    • Man with Hockey Bag
    Prasad Pereira
    • Uncle 2
    Liz Gruszka
    • Director (Female)
    Ruvin De Silva
    • Anil
    David Hamilton
    • Male Club Member
    Rehan Mudannayake
    Rehan Mudannayake
    • Shehan
    Surein De S. Wijeyeratne
    • Director (Male)
    Nadeepa Ranasinghe
    • Aunt 1
    Kamalasiri Mohan Kumar
    • Tamil Mother
    • Regie
      • Deepa Mehta
    • Drehbuch
      • Deepa Mehta
      • Shyam Selvadurai
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    9ExtrovertedIntrovert

    Highly recommendable - Great movie

    I plead ignorance to what happened in Sri Lanka, prior to watching this movie. I understand if people are disappointed if it wasn't Tamil people playing the parts. But I'm SO glad I ignored 95% of the reviews on here. This is a good movie. People are rating it so poorly because of politics (as I say, they may have a point but that's not *my* point).

    I'm confident the majority of 1 star reviews are written by a few people with multiple accounts. It's a shame, as if I had listened to them - and avoided the movie, I wouldn't have learned what happened. I am now (because of this movie) more aware and have since read up on what happened. That wouldn't have happened without this movie.

    But anyway! I was gutted when this ended, and it made me feel plenty of emotions. I got angry, I got upset when I related to the little gay boy so much, I laughed at the brazenness of the sparring kids, and I mourned what happened between the two people.

    If like me you're looking for a movie that will make you feel and make you think - I'd definitely recommend Funny Boy.
    7wekirch

    Flawed but woirth watching

    Arjun is Tamil boy who realises he's gay in a country that criminalises people like him. The movie follows his life from childhood to young manhood, set in Sri Lanka during the ethnic war that resulted in somewhere between 100,000 and 150,000 deaths, and one million Tamils migrating to India, Canada, and other countries. The story is one damn thing after another. The messiness, almost incoherence of the script, mimics this, but also distances us from the characters, who become objects moved around by events that they don't and can't control. Arjun's relationship with Shean doesn't free either of them, it's at best a brief time of mutual joy which can't resist the politics surrounding it. The acting is uniformly very good, helping us Westerners understand a culture so different and yet oddly similar to our own. I get the impression that Mehta had a clear vision of what she wanted, and it wasn't a neatly structured plot tied up with a neat bow of a resolution. I think she also wanted to show how avoiding politics is no defence. The movie was engaging despite itself, the kind that tosses up half-recalled scenes when you least expect them. Worth watching, even if only to get a vague notion of what it's like to live in a different society than your own. I read a number of attacks on this movie, all of which focused on two points, and which all betrayed that the critics had political axes to grind. Pity.
    7nimrasavanghan

    Love is Love is Love

    Funny boy is something most Sri Lankan teenagers (who grew up in the late 80s and 90s ) can relate to. We lived most of our lives through a devastating civil war for over a decade. We suppressed so much during this time. Watching the main character struggle with expressing himself is so relatable it hurts! As much as I love Nimmi Harasgama, I think Brandon Ingram, Rehan Mudannayake and Aaarush Nand are definitely divas to watch out for!

    I understand the controversy surrounding the casting, but as a Sri Lankan I stand by the artist's decision. It is a beautiful story Deepa Mehta wanted to share with us, and we need to respect the creative team and their decisions.

    I wish the entire cast and crew the very best at the upcoming Academy awards! YOU GUYS HAVE MY VOTES! ( this includes my 10,000 other personalities.)

    keep slaaaying!
    9laduqesa

    Grabbed the attention throughout

    I want to deal with one of the criticisms of the film right away. I do not speak any of the languages of the sub continent at all and wouldn't recognise the difference between Sinhalese or Tamil to save my life. Therefore the poor-quality spoken dialogue from the non-Tamil actors playing members of that ethnic group was something I obviously never picked up on. OK, I'd be furious if I was watching a German film and, say, Swedish people were speaking poor German and pretending to be that nationality. But as I was in no position to pick up on this here, it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the film.

    I always enjoy films that combine personal dramas and stories with sweeping political and societal events. Here we had them all in spades. Family dynamics, prejudices in both the domestic sphere and the national arena, differing viewpoints on how to deal with inter-community strife.

    Within a country whose idyllic existence is slowly being rent apart by ethnic tensions, a wealthy family lives these problems in microcosm. The plot outline on IMDB contains many spoilers but I am not going to be so crass. The film concentrates on two periods, first of all in 1974 when Arjie is a child interested in dressing up as a girl with a protective auntie encouraging him and his parents attempting to get him to "man up". We see the prejudices that occurred even then between Sinhalese and Tamils. And Aunty Radha forced to depart for Canada because of them.

    Then we follow Arjie in his teenage years when prejudice is turning into hatred between communities. He is caught up in this in both his love life and with his family whose patriarch wrongly thought their position in society would protect them.

    It's a part of history I knew about, but not in detail. I have looked it up since and can see that, although there is not a clear political context in the film, the major issues and events seem to be true. I was mesmerised throughout and fascinated by both the wider and the personal stories. I'm so glad I saw this film.
    7roger-99-171599

    Exquisite gay versus politics tale

    Prolific Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta's latest achievement is a tender coming of age gay story with a strong political backdrop. Set in late 70's-early 80's it depicts the horrors of racial prejudice against members of a Tamil community in the awakening of the civil war in Sri Lanka. The narrative focuses on the development and sexual arise of a young boy, who since his early ages demonstrates his interest in the feminine universe, as well as a courageous expressiveness of his true personality. As a kid he battled bullying in school and prejudice at home, while his parents are engaged in the political conflicts; as a young man he discovered the fascination of American/British pop culture, while developing his first romance with a lonely richer boy; As the crisis intensifies and most of his community are threatened and attacked, they plan a escape to Canada, interfering somehow in the boy's sudden process of figuring out his identity and place in the world. The director unveils social, political, gender and cultural issues seen through Arjie's boyhood and varied experiences with a world he doesn't belong to. It's only at the moments of intimacy and entertainment provided by his encounters with his boyfriend, and the acceptance found on his aunt's approach that bring him a sense of ease. Canada's Official entry for the Best International Film at the 2021 Oscars, Mehta composes an affecting, lively and free-spirited, historically accurate and family-friendly LGBTQ tale.

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 4. Dezember 2020 (Kanada)
    • Herkunftsländer
      • Kanada
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Offizielle Standorte
      • ARRAY (United States)
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    • Sprachen
      • Englisch
      • Tamil
      • Singhalesisch
    • Drehorte
      • Colombo, Sri Lanka(2nd Hometown)
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • ARRAY Releasing
      • Hamilton-Mehta Productions
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