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 The Reason I Jump, Fatherhood, In the Earth, It Must Be Heaven, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, Luca and Monster Hunter
A scene from Jerry Rothwell's The Reason I Jump
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
The Reason I Jump (12A)
Directed by Jerry Rothwell
★★★★
DOCUMENTARIAN Jerry Rothwell provides a unique and eye-opening insight into the world of non-speaking autistic people in his visually compelling and extraordinary new film.
It is based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, who wrote it when he was 13, in which he described his thoughts and feelings and what it was like to be autistic without being able to utter a word.
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