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Aftermath of disappointment
There's a much more fascinating and complex film hidden away in a romantic melodrama set in post-war Germany, says MARIA DUARTE
JAN WOOLF invigilates images that meditate on Palestine, and the people who witness them
A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
JAN WOOLF is bowled over by a major retrospective for the YBA artist
The Aftermath (15)
Directed by James Kent
THIS Mills and Boon-style weepie opens in 1945, five months after the allied victory, with Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) heading to Hamburg to join her husband Lewis (Jason Clark), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the bombed out city.
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