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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The Exception
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
The Exception (15)
Directed by Jesper Nielsen
★★★★
CHRISTIAN JUNGERSEN’S acclaimed novel Undtagelsen comes to the screen, courtesy of director Jesper Nielsen, in this compelling watchable thriller.
The story of a group of researchers at the Danish Centre for Genocide Information, whose lives are upended by a series of anonymous threats, it follows the rise of troll culture in recent years to provide a timely and unmissable chiller, packed full of twists, turns, and towering performances from its four female leads.
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