To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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MARIA DUARTE’S attention is caught by three films in which strong and determined women confront prejudice, misogyny and repressive legislation
Aline Küppenheim as Carmen and Nicolas Sepulveda as Elias
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
THIS year BFI London Film Festival returned in all its former glory. It featured an exciting line-up of cinematic offerings opening and closing with two rousing crowd-pleasers, Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the sequel to Knives Out, starring Daniel Craig which is as good, if not better, than the original.
For the second year running the festival included a TV section showcasing the latest new series from around the world alongside a wide selection of international short and feature films screened in the capital and in 10 towns and cities across Britain.
Among my recommendations this year are Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, which is a powerful and heart-stopping drama about a group of women in a remote Mennonite community who discuss their response to being systematically drugged, raped and abused by the men of the society.
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RITA DI SANTO takes us through the prize winners, and takes the temperature of a festival that prioritised narratives of exile, state violence and class division
SETH SANDRONSKY recommends a production that looks back at the political Tinseltown in the mid-1970s when US cinema ‘didn’t pander to trends’
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review The Six Billion Dollar Man, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Goodbye June, and Super Elfkins
TONY BURKE recommends a new podcast about the legenary Nigerian musician and political activist FELA KUTI