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Polarized

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After her family suffers foreclosure, aspiring songwriter Lisa is forced to take a job at a new, urban farm where she meets Dalia. Her casual racism leads her to be fired, but the women end up in a passionate affair.
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Anne T. Donahue Globe and Mail Takes a close look at issues of race, sexuality and religion and the way they intersect, making for a thoughtful film about the way familial and cultural expectations can hurt the ones we love. Jun 23, 2023 Full Review Anne Brodie What She Said The women develop a bond that can’t be ignored and risk wealth, business, status, and families to be together. Do they have the courage to walk away? The story’s not new, or groundbreaking but the production is good. Rated: 2/4 Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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tm11999 M another chick movie but the girls were cute. i could've done w/out the super human successful palestinian racists who were forced to come to this devil continent "because of the joos" where they must see all the western depravity. meh.....watch it for the girls. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/13/24 Full Review Adam C The most sought-after session pianist in the Nashville music industry was a blind man named Hargus Melvin Robbins, who went by the mononym "Pig." He was self-taught and couldn't read Braille-scribed music, but he could listen to the first few bars of the song about to be recorded and instantly have his entire piano score fixed in his mind and ready to record. I feel a little like Pig about the film Polarized. From the moment the two main characters were introduced in their own separate worlds, I could have fired up Final Draft and banged-out the bones of the script before the sun set. That's not to say Polarized isn't a good film, but it definitely has permanently-attached training wheels. It would have been more "polarizing" fifteen or more years ago. Today, in 2024, it's like teaching remedial math to college graduates. Been there, done that, and it's comfortably all around us now. There is tentative romance but no hungry passion between the leading characters. The Palestinian family's reactions are unrealistically tamed to hints of mild anger; in the real world there would have likely been a degree of violence that leads perpetrators to courtrooms. Finally, if Disney ever starts making films about budding first-time lesbian relationships, I guarantee their endings will all be virtually identical to the ending of Polarized. Even with all this being said, I still recommend you watch Polarized for the level of enjoyment it does bring. No, it's not going to be nominated for an Academy Award, but neither do most of the films we all enjoy and come back to more than once. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/09/24 Full Review Kara F Class acts: ))) ........ Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Shamim Sarif

Director

Holly Deveaux

Lisa

Maxine Denis

Dalia

Tara Samuel

Jill

Elie Gemael

Tarek

Hesham Hammoud

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Synopsis After her family suffers foreclosure, aspiring songwriter Lisa is forced to take a job at a new, urban farm where she meets Dalia. Her casual racism leads her to be fired, but the women end up in a passionate affair.
Director
Shamim Sarif
Producer
Juliette Hagopian
Screenwriter
Shamim Sarif
Production Co
Enlightenment Productions, Julijette, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Manitoba Film & Music, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Blue Denim Films, Téléfilm Canada, Echo Lake Entertainment, SK Enlightenment, Canada Media Fund (CMF)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
British English
Runtime
1h 44m
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