Sweetness in the Belly (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 7, 2020
- Originally Released: 2019
- Label: Gravitas Ventures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dakota Fanning & Wunmi Mosaku | |
Directed by | Zeresenay Mehari | |
Edited by | Susan Maggi | |
Composition by | Todor Kobakov | |
Director of Photography: | Tim Fleming |
Entertainment Reviews:
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TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 10
Rating: B --
Despite its flaws, Sweetness in the Belly hits plenty of the right notes, featuring a breadth of insight possible only when a filmmaker truly knows the place the story is set.
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The Playlist
Rating: 4/5 --
Deeply felt drama about one woman's refugee experience.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 2.5/5 --
While this movie certainly has the potential, it just misses the mark on its story structure, Lilly's character development, and falls victim to dated cinematic tropes that Hollywood has a bad habit of repeating incessantly.
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Black Girl Nerds
Pleasant and picturesque throughout, "Sweetness in the Belly" is most affecting as a story where everyone is an outsider in some capacity.
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Variety
Despite its flaws, Sweetness in the Belly stands as a solid, emotionally driven drama that covers a variety of complicated topics.
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Film Ireland Magazine
The nonlinear film is evocative and compassionate, yet struggles to modulate its disparate narrative threads.
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Cinemalogue
It ticks nearly every box in the checklist of films you wish you could like more than you actually do.
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Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
Director Zeresenay Mehari's transnational drama is an adaptation of English-born Canadian writer Camilla Gibb's 2005 novel of the same name. Starring Dakota Fanning, Kunal Nayyar, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Wunmi Mosaku, it traces the story of Lilly Abdal, an Anglo-Irish woman who grew up in Morocco as an orphan and embraced Islam. She is forced to flee to England after a civil war breaks out in Ethiopia in the 1970s.