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
Thai dreams and nightmares
ALAN FRANK recommends a hallucinatory trip through a troubled Asian country, and we look at the other films of the week
By the Time it Gets Dark (12A)
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong
THAI writer-director Anocha Suwichakornpong’s astonishing second feature evocatively interweaves and reinterprets the lives of its key characters to considerable emotive effect, despite her complex and frequently elusive storytelling.
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