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Film round-up: June 9, 2022
The Star's critic Maria Duarte reviews Swan Song, Leave No Traces, All My Friends Hate Me and Jurassic World: Dominion
Udo Kier in Swan Song

Swan Song (12A)
Directed by Todd Stephens
★★★★

LEGENDARY actor Udo Kier gives the performance of a lifetime in this touching and bittersweet drama which writer-director Todd Stephens has described as his love letter to disappearing gay culture in the United States.

Kier stars as “Mister Pat” Pitsenbarger, a renowned and flamboyant former hairdresser who comes out of retirement, as well as his nursing home in Sandusky, Ohio, to fulfil his greatest client’s dying wish to style her final hairdo. The character was inspired by a legendary figure in Stephens’s hometown in this, his third film about Sandusky.

Leave No Traces (15)
Directed by Jan P Matuszynski
★★★

All My Friends Hate Me (15)
Directed by Andrew Gaynord
★★

Jurassic World: Dominion (12A)
Directed by Colin Trevorrow
★★★

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