Sweetness in the Belly

Name: Sweetness in the Belly
Genre: Drama
Released: May 8, 2020
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Amerjit Deu, Cleo Sylvestre, Dakota Fanning, David Fawaz, David Ryan

2020

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date (Streaming): May 8, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Amerjit Deu, Cleo Sylvestre, Dakota Fanning, David Fawaz, David Ryan, Gavin Drea, Kunal Nayyar, Michaela May Wright, Molly McCann, Mylène Gomera, Neelam Bakshi, Peter Bankole, Sharon Coade, Wunmi Mosaku, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Summary: After being abandoned in Africa as a child, Lilly (Dakota Fanning) is forced to flee Ethiopia for England when civil war breaks. She befriends Amina (Wunmi Mosaku), an Ethiopian refugee who has fled the same war. Together they begin a mission to reunite people with their scattered families.

Director: Zeresenay Mehari

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 min

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The Playlist Steven Allison

May 9, 2020

For its few 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. Read full review

Zeresenay Mehari

May 9, 2020

This is a well-crafted, Bechdel-passing film that prioritizes an intersectional female friendship, yet Lilly remains nothing but our Trojan horse into the 1980s Ethiopian refugee crisis. Read full review

Chandler Levack

Jul 28, 2020

Fanning acquits herself, but Amina’s story as a single mother of two and a survivor of brutal sexual violence is the far more necessary story to tell. A main romantic subplot is slighter still. Read full review

Guy Lodge

May 9, 2020

There’s a floridly sentimental heart fluttering beneath its tastefully solemn surface, but at times, you can’t help wishing the film would give in to its more expressive impulses. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

May 9, 2020

It ticks nearly every box in the checklist of films you wish you could like more than you actually do. Read full review

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JLuis_001

May 16, 2020

I have the understanding that the book in which is based is more explanatory and while the film just felt regular, there's a thing that bothered me and is one issue that I don't really discuss much but in this case is just brutal.
I mean we get a story about Ethiopian refugees only becauseI have the understanding that the book in which is based is more explanatory and while the film just felt regular, there's a thing that bothered me and is one issue that I don't really discuss much but in this case is just brutal.
I mean we get a story about Ethiopian refugees only because the protagonist is a white woman with a fake african accent? C'mon.… Expand

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