When Father Was Away On Business (1985 Cannes Palme d'Or Winner)
About this episode
This episode discusses the 1985 Cannes Palme d'Or winner, 'When Father Was Away on Business', directed by Emir Kusturica.
The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1985 features the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, Emir Kusturica’s When Father Was Away on Business . Directed by Emir Kusturica and starring Moreno De Bartoli, Miki Manojlović, Mirjana Karanović, Mustafa Nadarević and Mira Furlan, When Father Was Away on Business was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Janet Maslin in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/28/movies/film-festival-when-father-was-away.html ), Richard Corliss in Time magazine ( https://time.com/archive/6705004/cinema-memory-movie-when-father-was-away-on-business/ ), and Variety ( https://variety.com/1984/film/reviews/when-father-was-away-on-business-1200426372/ ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at…
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