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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Moffie a must-see
MARIA DUARTE recommends a film on the apartheid regime's brutal treatment of a young gay army conscript
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
Moffie (18)
Directed by Oliver Hermanus
SET in South Africa in 1981, this slow-burning and haunting drama explores the experience of 18-year-old Nicholas Van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), who's been called up for compulsory National Service.
The country has begun military operations on its border with Angola, at the time backed by the socialist countries, to “stop the spread of communism.” All white males over the age of 16 were conscripted into the military for two years to defend the racist regime.
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