{"id":52842,"date":"2023-02-22T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/feb\/22\/joyland-review-subtle-family-drama-is-remarkable-debut"},"modified":"2023-02-22T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T09:00:19","slug":"joyland-review-subtle-trans-drama-from-pakistan-is-remarkable-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52842","title":{"rendered":"Joyland review \u2013 subtle trans drama from Pakistan is remarkable debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saim Sadiq\u2019s film explores the unsettled social and sexual identities of a widower and his children with delicacy and tenderness<\/p>\n<p>The right way to feel love, and the right way to feel part of a family, are the insoluble difficulties at the heart of this mysterious, sad and tender movie from Pakistan, a drama brimming with life and novelistic detail, directed by the first-time film-maker Saim Sadiq. He has been rewarded with the Un Certain Regard jury prize at Cannes, an official entry-shortlisting for the Academy Awards (though not a final nomination), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/features\/joyland-director-reversal-of-films-ban-in-pakistan-a-cause-for-optimism\/5177144.article\">derision and censorship from Pakistan\u2019s sterner political classes<\/a> for his film\u2019s supposed sexual immorality.<\/p>\n<p>It is the story of an extended family in Lahore. Rana Amanullah, or \u201cAbba\u201d (Salmaan Peerzada), is an elderly widower in a wheelchair who presides over a large clan in a cramped apartment, near an amusement park called Joyland. One son, Saleem (Sohail Sameer) is married to Nucchi (Sarwat Gilani), they now have four lively young daughters but yearn to give Abba a grandson.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/feb\/22\/joyland-review-subtle-family-drama-is-remarkable-debut\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saim Sadiq\u2019s film explores the unsettled social and sexual identities of a widower and his children with delicacy and tendernessThe right way to feel love, and the right way to feel part of a family, are the insoluble difficulties at the heart of this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2653,2654,71,508,678,69,60,2247,79,61,572,852,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannes-2022","category-cannes-film-festival","category-culture","category-drama-films","category-festivals","category-film","category-pakistan","category-romance-films","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-world-cinema","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52842\/revisions\/52843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}