MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Migrants highlighted in Festival opener
RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
MAGICAL: Tala al Deen in The Light
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
The Light
Directed by Tom Tykwer
THIS year’s Berlin Film Festival opens with Tom Tykwer’s The Light, where a modern Mary Poppins, a Syrian housekeeper with a powerful device, rescues a dysfunctional German family.
Set in bustling modern Berlin, the film immerses viewers in the chaos of contemporary life. The main characters belong to a middle-class family, the Engels. Tim and Milena are a couple who have lost their once-strong connection. Milena often travels to Kenya for an artistic project, while her husband focuses on his advertising career.
Their children, 17-year-old twins Frieda and Jon, and the youngest, eight-year-old Dio, embody the new generations, grappling with the complex world and their future.
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