MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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Santiago Rising
Excellent documentary on the street demonstrations against neoliberal authoritarianism and for a new constitution in Chile
THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED: Protest on the streets of Santiago last year
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi
PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
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
FOR many years, Chile after Pinochet resembled Spain after Franco: the left had been brutally annihilated and any sign of opposition successfully repressed.
Most citizens, it seemed, just wanted to get on with their lives after the nightmare of the past and forget politics.
So it was immensely surprising and uplifting to witness the sudden eruption in 2019 of a widespread protest movement throughout Chile against continued authoritarianism and neoliberal policies and the demand for a new national constitution to replace the one imposed on the nation by Pinochet.
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