Kisapmata (1981)
Wanted to give the new Letterboxd video store a chance with one of these films I have never heard of and probably wouldn’t have seen otherwise. The narrative is a well known theme with a controlling patriarch disapproving of the man his daughter have chosen to marry. Things seem to settle though, and he isn’t immediately violent. Just controlling and demanding, but the underlying tension is very clear. His disapproval wont pass and things develop in a more sinister direction. Despite taking place in a very different culture, it captures something very universal on controlling parents. Maybe something was lost in translation or it is just a different cultural style of storytelling than I am used, but I thought the dialogue often was very blunt and simplistic. The point gets across though.
Rating: 3.5