ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Film round-up: June 15, 2023
MARIA DUARTE reviews of Sunlight, You Can Live Forever, Inland and Greatest Days
(L to R) Barry Ward as Leon and Liam Carney as Iver
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
Sunlight (15)
Directed by Claire Dix
★★★
E
A FORMER addict decides to take his terminally ill best friend and sponsor on one last hurrah across Dublin in a bid to persuade him to choose life in Claire Dix’s touching yet heartbreaking debut fiction feature.
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