
Chaar lugaai (चार लुगाई ) follows four women whose husbands work in distant cities, leaving them to find their own ways of dealing with loneliness and desire. Three of them try to get involved with the same young man from the village, while the fourth stands by them without judgment. But when the young man dies in an accident, their private lives suddenly become a serious problem. What starts as an attempt to protect themselves slowly turns into a tense game of lies as a police investigation begins closing in on them.
At least we got the original cast back, right? Not even that saves it. None of them could bring a sliver of hope to this special. Rather, they bring dread as we witness the light leaving from their eyes.
On March 31st, International Trans Day of Visibility, following some COVID related delays, the trailer was finally dropped, and although Taylour Paige and Riley Keough look to impress as lead characters Zola and Stefani, a brief cameo from a queer icon was what convinced me I have to see this movie.
Bong Joon Ho’s masterpiece, Parasite (2019) became one of the few international films to break into the American mainstream.
It’s dark, uncomfortable, and there are things that don’t make sense.
The definition of the word foul is “offensive to the senses,” which is a pretty good summation of the new Disney+ film, Artemis Fowl