In our latest dispatch from the London Film Festival, we review two very different, but equally moving, submissions for the foreign-language Oscar: South African gay drama “Beauty” and Icelandic old-age study “Volcano.”
London: Foreign Oscar hopefuls 'Beauty' and 'Volcano'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:02 am · October 26th, 2011
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China and South Africa bring a little English to the foreign Oscar conversation
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:00 pm · September 23rd, 2011
We talk about name appeal being a factor in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race, but no country this year can boast it to quite the same extent as China: not only is their submission, just announced today, directed by three-time Oscar nominee Zhang Yimou, but it stars reigning Best Supporting Actor champ Christian Bale.
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