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Film round-up: October 13, 2022
Maria Duarte reviews of Emily, Rosaline, All Is Vanity, and Halloween Ends
Emma Mackay as Emily Bronte in Frances O'Connor's Emily
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Emily (15)
Directed by Frances O'Connor
★★★
ACTOR turned director Frances O’Connor's debut feature is a haunting and visually arresting reimagining of the life of Emily Bronte, whose one and only novel Wuthering Heights is considered a literary classic.
Emma Mackay (Death on the Nile and Sex Education) is absolutely mesmerising as Emily who is full of contradictions — shy yet rebellious; quietly opinionated yet demure — who expressed her passions and yearnings through her poems and writings.
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