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1. • • Despite its occasional failings, Funny Boy proves to be a moving retrospective on violence - both the explosive and bloody kind, as well as the intimate, emotional, and quieter violence of family - and the zest for life it so often threatens.
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   • Michael Cuby them. Funny Boy is an electrifying coming-of-age tale. Full Review | Sep 28, 2022 Curiously gentle, this queer coming of age drama is disarmingly open-hearted. Full Review | Sep 13, 2021 The timing of the release of Funny Boy couldn't be better than at this particular moment. If people are able to overlook some of the issues...

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   What is 'Funny Boy' about?

   • “Funny Boy,” especially in its second half, is trying to tell two stories at the same time: an intimate portrait of Arjie and his growing understanding of his sexual identity, and a grander story about the Sinhalese/Tamil violence and how those divisions caused thousands of Sri Lankans to flee the country.

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   Is Funny Boy a melodrama?

   • Despite its occasional failings, Funny Boy proves to be a moving retrospective on violence - both the explosive and bloody kind, as well as the intimate, emotional, and quieter violence of family - and the zest for life it so often threatens. Full Review | Dec 23, 2020 The film satisfies itself with contrasts that reek of manipulative melodrama.

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   Is Funny Boy based on a true story?

   • Funny Boy is based on the 1994 novel by Shyam Selvadurai, and the author has adapted the novel with Indian-Canadian film-maker Deepa Mehta, someone well practised in counterpointing the public and the private since her trilogy Fire, Earth and Water (1996-2005).

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   Dec 10, 2020 · Funny Boy. A group of children with no cares at all, free and reckless, run through thick jungle growth, their feet splashing into the ocean waves crashing on the beach, their bodies chasing a train making its way along the water’s edge. Their outfits are a riot of color, and their play-acting is of a wedding, with one child dressed as a ...

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   Dec 10, 2020 · Intimate and beautifully rendered, “Funny Boy” is a visually lush coming-of-age drama set amidst a vicious ethnic conflict that is regionally specific, but tragically universal.

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   While the story soft-pedals the brutal violence between the Tamil and Sinhalese people, the story of a privileged Tamil teen (Brandon Ingram) finding inner peace amid a world of conflict remains...

7. www.commonsensemedia.org › movie-reviews › funny-boyFunny Boy Movie Review | Common Sense Media

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   Queer coming-of-age story has violence and racism. Read Common Sense Media's Funny Boy review, age rating, and parents guide.

   • 4/5
   • Director: Deepa Mehta

   • Author: Kat Halstead
   • Actors: Arush Nand, Brandon Ingram, Agam Darshi

8. www.latimes.com › funny-boy-review-deepa-mehta'Funny Boy' review: Being gay and Tamil in Sri Lanka - Los ...

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   Dec 11, 2020 · Deepa Mehta's "Funny Boy" juxtaposes a gay teenage love story with rising ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka for a film that is ultimately about thriving, or just surviving, as someone deemed ...

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   Dec 10, 2020 · Deepa Mehta’s sprawling coming-of-age drama follows a boy who realizes he is gay in a country that criminalizes homosexuality.

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    Dec 8, 2020 · Overall, Funny Boy is sharply acted, with Harasgama particularly imposing as a serious, quietly concerned mother, and Darshi genial as Arjie’s rebel mentor.