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Film round-up: April 29, 2022
MARIA DUARTE of Downton Abbey: A New Era, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, and Your Mum and Dad: A Devastating Truth
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
Downton Abbey: A New Era (PG)
Directed by Simon Curtis
★★★★
DOWNTON Abbey returns with all its cinematic glory and Upstairs-Downstairs intrigue as it continues where the 2019 film left off, but with the Crawley family now heading to the south of France on a fact-finding missing to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess’s newly inherited villa.
Written by Julian Fellowes and directed by Simon Curtis, the film, set in 1928, deals with Downton having to confront the modern world as Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery), to the horror of her father Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), agrees to allow a film company to shoot their silent movie at the estate in order to pay for much-needed roof repairs while he is away in the French Riviera.
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