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The Last Curtain

The Last Curtain (Sonuncu Pərdə)

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  • Azerbaijan
  • 2019
  • · 84m

Director Emil Quliyev
Cast Vidadi Hasanov, Aziza Hashimova, Arif Kerimov, Alibey Memmedli
Genre Drama

Sometimes materialism is superior to friendship, conscience, humanity, and even love. Even friends of "a hundred years" can, in a moment, sacrifice everything to greed and take a wrong step. Perhaps this is the right choice for some. Or have human values ​​already changed?

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Urzua's unsentimental story of shattered idealism is specific to Cuba, but anyone whose path to adulthood was paved with disillusionment, -- whether they were betrayed by faith, family or institutions – will understand her melancholy nostalgia.

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Village Voice by Ed Gonzalez

Both love story and memory of underdevelopment, The Sugar Curtain illuminates, with great sobriety and reverence, the paradox of a nation as steeped in tradition as it is in hypocrisy.

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Variety by Deborah Young

Those on both sides of the great Cuba divide should find food for thought in these sober, realistic reflections.

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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

A pensive valentine to literacy programs and childhood idealism left in the ashes of broken families and an economically bifurcated society.