Joyland
Film details
| Film Title | Joyland |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 126mins |
| Year | 2022 |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Director | Saim Sadiq |
| Actors | Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan |
| Language | Punjabi, Urdu |
| Showings |
The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque, and he quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
Joyland’s quiet power comes not through melodrama, which Sadiq scrupulously avoids, but its deep affection for its characters. It’s a modern tale of changing gender roles and the patriarchal crisis that could just as easily have taken place in New York.
★★★★
The frame moves slowly, if at all, but it always brims with physical and emotional energy; there’s always something in the ether, whether embodied by dazzling displays of light as characters move across stages and club floors or by breathtaking silences
★★★★★
