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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ALAN FRANK delights in Brian Cox’s tour de force performance in an intelligent story about a doomed Shakespearean actor
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 Carer (15)
Directed by Janos Edelenyi
4/5
Nowadays too many showbusiness types seem eager to provide the ever-insatiable media with their views on anything and everything at the drop of a publicist.
But these “luvvies” — actors and actresses who incline to be “particularly effusive or affected” — could very well be seen to damage performers who value their profession more than celebrity.
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