Movie of the Day: The Damned Don't Cry (2022) by Fyzal Boulifa

The Damned Don’t Cry combines melodrama and neorealism to tell the story of a mother-son relationship on the fringes, observing the effects of oppression – both economic and affective – in a cut-throat world. Borrowing its title from a 1950s Joan Crawford melodrama, The Damned Don’t Cry employs non-professional actors for its two main actors and almost the entire cast. In his second feature which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Fyzal Boulifa manages to avoid pastiche while ‘readily embracing some of the formal elements of melodrama’ as he takes his inspiration from Pasolini’s Mamma Roma and Le notti di Cabiria. 5 wins & 9 nominations international film festivals. Link IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21352686/ Link Review: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/08/the-damned-dont-cry-review-fyzal-boulifa-venice-film-festival Link to watch: https://homecinema.curzon.com/film/the-damned-dont-cry/