MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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RITA DI SANTO reports on an outstanding competition
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
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
MEXICAN director Alfonso Cuaron and his jury gave the festival’s Golden Lio top prize to the rookie Venezuelan film-maker Lorenzo Vigas’s From Afar.
Set in Caracas, it tells the story of the wealthy Armando (Alfredo Castro), middle-aged and struggling to connect to others emotionally, who develops an obsession with young petty criminal Elder (Luis Silva, pictured).
Their first encounter is a violent one but this doesn’t discourage his fascination with the handsome teenager.
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