Dear friends,
This week Iβm traveling to San Francisco for a new project I have, which is why youβre getting this newsletter so late in the day and not at 8 p.m. Berlin time. To a Moroccan who learned English from watching movies, being in the U.S. always feels half intriguing half very intimidating - and probably nowhere has made me feel this more than S.F. (as the locals say).
If youβre here and want to grab a coffee, let me know! I hope you have a great weekend wherever you are.
OUR TOP MOVIE THIS WEEK
7 Prisoners
New on Netflix π rating: 97%
This gripping and thought-provoking Brazilian drama is about 18-year-old Mateus who leaves his hometown in rural Brazil to go work at a junkyard in SΓ£o Paulo. Once there, he realizes that he and other coworkers are trapped as modern slaves for the owner of the junkyard.
Produced by the co-director of City of God Fernando Meirelles, it has much of the same gritty energy as the boys start doing everything they can to escape. The only option that ends up seeming viable is for Mateus to impress the owner of the junkyard, a human trafficker, and become his right-hand man.
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