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What Will People Say

Hva vil folk si

2017

Iram Haq

Maria Mozhdah, Adil Hussain, Ekavali Khanna, Rohit Saraf ...

6.9

2,427

Drama 16 year-old Nisha lives in Norway a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example, Nisha's parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents' culture. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Alissa Simon Variety	"[It] smartly probes the problems of a character caught between cultures, while the nuanced screenplay once again draws on her own harrowing life experience."	POS
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"An assured piece of storytelling made all the more gripping by the knowledge that it is autobiographical (...) [It] tries to understand both sides of this cultural and generational divide"	POS
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"It lacks the nuance and insight of her impressively poignant yet controlled debut feature (...) Haq finds a painfully sad but also visually striking way to end her story."	NEU
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"Haq is careful not to paint Mirza as a one-note villain (...) Haq counterbalances the direness of these events with moments of levity (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"[The] approach, while undeniably moving, mostly strands this intelligent, resourceful young woman as a passive witness to her own story."	NEU
United States	April Wolfe Village Voice	"While Haq’s film does go quite dark at times, she shields us from the worst (...) and offers an unbreakable heroine in Nisha."	POS

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