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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A flying visit to the invisible
MARIA DUARTE recommends a film exploring the punishing world of work endured by poor women in France, and the ethical questions raised by seeking to highlight their plight
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
Between Two Worlds (12A)
Directed by Emmanuel Carrere
A WELL-KNOWN author goes undercover as a cleaner to investigate the hardships, insecure employment and poverty suffered by France’s invisible female workforce in this insightful drama posing ethical questions.
Based on French investigative journalist Florence Aubena’s book The Night Cleaner, about her real-life experiences on this front, it stars Juliette Binoche as Marianne Winckler, who breaks all ties with her middle-class life and heads to the northern port city of Caen to find employment — and the contents of her next book.
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