To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Best of 2019: Film
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
THERE was an inordinate amount of high-calibre films released this year, addressing hot topics such as racism, female empowerment, mad monarchs and a whole range of social and political issues.
Whittling down such a bumper crop is well-nigh impossible but in my top 10 is Peter Farrelly's stunning Oscar-winning Green Book. It's inspired by the real-life story and friendship of a working-class Italian American bouncer (Viggo Mortensen), hired to drive an African-American classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) on a tour of venues through the 1960s US South.
Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite is a totally surreal but stylish period drama set in 18th-century England about the ailing and unpredictable Queen Anne — the magnificent and Academy Award-winning Olivia Colman — and the two women (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) competing for her affections.
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