WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Racked with Spain
MARIA DUARTE is gripped by a complex thriller set amidst the rural beauties and resentments of Spanish Galicia
Marie Colomb in The Beasts (2022)
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
The Beasts (15)
Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
THE THEME of feuding neighbours takes on a deadly note in this slow burning yet intense drama from Spanish film-maker Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
Inspired by a true story, it follows a middle-aged French couple (Denis Menochet and Marina Fois) who have been living in a beautiful yet remote small village in Galicia, Spain, for two years where they have been communing with nature and running an organic farm.
However they are still considered to be outsiders by their neighbours, the Anta brothers (Luis Zahera and Diego Anido), who are incensed that as foreigners Antoine (Menochet) and Olga (Fois) have an equal say over the future of their community with those who have lived there all their lives. They are incandescent that they have robbed them of life-changing income by voting against the plan of a developer to buy their land for a wind farm.
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