MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
After Bataclan
ANGUS REID is astonished by a film of exceptional empathy that addresses a collective trauma
PTSD: Virginie Efira in Paris Memories
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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
Paris Memories (15)
Directed by Alice Winocour
THE extraordinary benefit of having a national film culture is that this subtle and powerful medium can be used to process events of national significance for a mass audience and in an artistically satisfying and cathartic way.
But you’ll never have a national film culture until you reserve the majority of your screens for national product. That’s why it doesn’t exist in the UK (just go see what’s playing at your local Omni) but it does exist in France.
Paris Memories (a poor translation of Revoir Paris) is the kind of film that the French can make, and we cannot.
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