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Series Mania Crowns ‘Apples Never Fall’ Star Annette Bening, Garry Kasparov-Centered ‘Rematch’
Garry Kasparov-centered ‘Rematch,’ ‘Apples Never Fall’ star Annette Bening and ‘Herrhausen – The Banker and the Bomb' win at Series Mania.
The German show wasn’t the only one with politics on its mind, with just about every other territory hoping to deliver its own “House of Cards” these days, starting with France’s “In the Shadows” and Sweden’s “8 Months,” which took on the previously fantastical concept of joining NATO. Daniel Lawrence Taylor’s well-received “Boarders,” combining comedy with a brutally honest look at Britain’s private schools as five Black students are offered life-changing scholarships, also underlined another significant trend: the importance of delivering dark storylines – and social critique – in an entertaining way. Laughter and excruciating pain co-existed also in Spanish revelation “La Mesias” – noticed for directing and also recipient of a Student’s Prize – or “After the Party,” which scored Robyn Malcom a win in the International Panorama for her role as a woman who accuses her own husband (Peter Mullan) of sexually abusing her daughter’s friend.
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