ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Film round-up: September 6, 2024
Yorkshire chills, tangled in the dark web, pregnancy diaries and brackish juice: MARIA DUARTE reviews Starve Acre, Red Rooms, My First Film and Beetlejuice
(L) Juliette Gariepy in Red Rooms; (R) Morfydd Clark in Starve Acre
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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
Starve Acre (15)
Directed by Daniel Kokotajlo
★★★
SET in 1970s rural England this chilling gothic horror revenge fantasy about the crippling effects of grief is writer-director Daniel Kokotajlo’s follow-up to his award-winning debut Apostasy.
Adapted from the novella by Andrew Michael Hurley, it centres on Richard (Matt Smith) and Juliette (Morfydd Clark) who relocate to their remote family home, Starve Acre, in Yorkshire when their son Owen (Arthur Shaw) starts acting oddly and upends their idyllic life, throwing it into turmoil.
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