ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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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
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
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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