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2022 films round-up with RITA di SANTO
Josep Abad and Ainet Jounou in The Gravedigger’s Wife (2022)
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
WHAT makes a film “memorable”? What makes it worth referencing, or remembering, or even watching in the first place? Why, at a moment when world events are often stranger than fiction, would we turn from the glorious escapism of big feature films and opt for something tiny, different, and rooted instead in the real?
The “tiny” films listed here are world-changing films, pivotal movies those who care about film should really get to know.
Alcarras, by female Spanish director, Carla Simon, is a semi-autobiographical, bittersweet tale about belonging, rooted in her native village (Alcarras). With stunning camerawork in deliberately natural colour, it is an elegant film, acted with real power and a strong feeling for its ordinary farmers faced with challenging circumstances that threaten to destroy their world.
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