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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Reviews of Gunda, Dream Horse, After Love, The Killing of Two Lovers, Flashback and Land (PG)
Joanna Scanlan as Mary in After Love
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
Gunda
Directed by Victor Kossakovsky
★★★★
IF YOU have ever contemplated whether or not animals are sentient beings, then this haunting and mesmerising film, following the lives of a real-life mother pig, a flock of chickens and a herd of cows, will reveal all.
Shot in black and white and devoid of dialogue, commentary and a music track, Victor Kossakovsky’s (Aquarela) new documentary is nevertheless an extraordinary and compelling watch as it takes experiential cinema to its most stripped-down form.
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