Film Review – Difret

To help “Difret” reach theaters across America, the production is using the good name of executive producer Angelina Jolie to attract attention. The famous humanitarian isn’t directly involved with the production, but it’s almost odd that the movie isn’t her third directorial outing, as it plays directly to her interests in global injustices and the plight of young women in the third world. Helmer Zeresenay Mehari (making her feature-length debut) actually handles “Difret,” making an interesting choice to avoid understandable hysterics to play the effort as a legal drama of sorts, preferring to capture the steps of community condemnation when dealing with the practice of forced marriage, instead of stirring it up with cheap melodramatics. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com