Powerful stories of personal struggle fill this year's foreign language film nominees
by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
Jan 23, 2018
3 minutes
A transgender woman grieving the loss of her lover, an insult that riles tensions in the Middle East and a vanished boy in snow-swept Russia - stories of personal struggle against the often cruel designs of larger forces - anchor this year's list of Academy Award nominees for best foreign language film.
Geographically, the five nominated films stretch from the discos of Santiago ("A Fantastic Woman") to the outskirts of Moscow ("Loveless") with stops in Lebanon ("The Insult"), Hungary ("On Body and Soul") and Sweden ("The Square"). The
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