The Breadwinner
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- Saara Chaudry
- Laara Sadiq
- Shaista Latif
- Ali Badshah
- Noorin Gulamgaus
- Kawa Ada
- Soma Chhaya
- Ali Kazmi
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LIVES up to the studio's high standards for cinematography, animation and soundscape design, but I felt that the narrative suffered from a lot of loose ends and a lack of character development towards the latter two thirds of the film.
Metacritic
Director Nora Twomey’s film is about the ways we try to cradle each other from the harsher realities of life. This is a day-to-day survival story that stirs the heart and fires the imagination.
So urgent and far-reaching that it never settles into the comforts of a coming-of-age story, The Breadwinner is a small film about the biggest things. It’s engaging from start to finish, but Twomey — to her great credit — prioritizes stoicism over sentimentality.
It’s notable that since her hair is cut short and she’s wearing male clothes, none of the men suspect that she’s not a boy despite her chosen male name being only slightly less conspicuous than “McLovin.” Being evil is not the same thing as being intelligent or observant.