Stephan Komandarev’s Blaga’s Lessons (Уроците на Блага), which took the Grand Prix within the Crystal Globe Competition at 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in addition to the Best Actress Award for its star Eli Skorcheva, will probably be Bulgaria’s International Film submission for the 2024 Academy Awards.
The nation’s choice committee picked the darkish up to date drama by an unanimous resolution Thursday. The alternative makes Komandarev the Bulgarian director with probably the most Foreign Language/International Film Oscar entries, three.
He holds the excellence of directing the one Bulgarian submission to make the class’s brief record with the gang pleaser The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner in 2009. His migrant drama The Judgement competed in 2015.
Blaga’s Lessons, a Bulgarian-German co-production, is the third movie in Komandarev’s trilogy about his nation’s social ills which he launched into following The Judgement. The first two movies within the trilogy are the 2017 Directions and 2019 Rounds.
In Blaga’s Lessons, which Deadline’s evaluate says “packs a punch not seen since Lars von Trier or Michael Haneke in their provocative prime,” a lately widowed aged girl, Blaga (Skorcheva) falls sufferer to phone scammers. Getting no assist from the authorities, her financial institution and her estranged son after shedding all her cash, Blaga — whose identify means “sweet” in Bulgarian — takes issues into her personal arms and turns the tables on the criminals who duped her.
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Blaga’s Lessons marks a triumphant return to the display for Skorcheva after a 30-year absence. Landing her first main position in her mid-20s, she was a serious star within the Eighties earlier than pulling away from performing and altering careers within the early Nineteen Nineties.
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