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 believes much can be learned from a documentary that charts the fate of one victim of the infamous rendition practice
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 Confession: Living the War on Terror (15)
Directed by Ashish Ghadiali
4/5
Former British Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has been held on suspicion of terrorism in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cuba and Britain yet he has never been brought to trial — nor has he ever been convicted of a single crime, which is important to state.
In Ashish Ghadiali’s thought-provoking debut documentary Begg gives an insightful and personal account of the realities of living the war on terror.
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