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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Reviews of Some Kind of Heaven, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Undergods and Servants
SURREAL: Some Kind of Heaven
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
Some Kind of Heaven
Directed by Lance Oppenheim
★★★★
HAILED as the “Disneyland for retirees,” this fascinating documentary explores life inside the largest retirement community in the US, in Florida of course, but from the point of view of those residents that didn’t fit into the fantasy.
Lance Oppenheim’s compelling and surreal debut feature follows four people who moved to The Villages to live the American Dream and find happiness, but who, living on its margins, find that their fantasy has turned into a nightmare.
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