WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Film round-up: March 11, 2022
The Star's critic Maria Duarte review Great Freedom, Young Plato, Turning Red, The Adam Project and Sideshow
A scene from Young Plato
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
Great Freedom (12A)
Directed by Sebastian Meise
★★★★
THE relentless persecution of homosexuals in post-war Germany is examined through the powerful and moving story of Hans, a gay man who refused to be beaten by the system and found love in the unlikeliest of places — prison.
What is most shocking about co-writer and director Sebastian Meise’s new film is how liberation by the Allies in World War II did not mean freedom for all.
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