It’s too political |
I’M surprised the lords ruling my algorithm did not alert me about Jan Komasa’s film Anniversary, or that it didn’t receive the media attention it deserved. I read up on it and found that the distributor Lionsgate may have buried the political thriller in November fearing a backlash from Trump supporters. It had a limited release and was low profile. “It’s hard to market a political film today,” one of the producers told The Wrap. “People are afraid of them.”
Anniversary is about an American family that is hounded following the rise of an authoritarian government. The twist — a book by their daughter-in-law ignited the fire that ultimately saw the rise of this regime and the destruction of everything it pretended to stand for. We watch the family come undone over a five-year period.
Diane Lane plays Ellen, a professor at a prestigious university whose former student Liz publishes The Change, a book claiming to unite a divided people by putting people in the centre. Liz wrote about a single-party rule but Ellen understood what she was advocating — authoritarian rule.
The Change gets picked up by a right-wing party that uses it as a manifesto to rise to power and Liz begins work at a think tank that champions The Change as a way of life.........