STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Extinction rebellion in Iceland
MARIA DUARTE recommends an entertaining yet instructive eco drama
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Woman at War (12A)
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
WITH a deceptive lightness of touch, co-writer and director Benedikt Erlingsson deals memorably with the serious threat to the environment in Woman at War.
Set in Iceland, it centres on 50-year-old Halla (Halldora Geirhardsdottir) who declares a one-woman war on the local aluminium industry in a bid to protect her beloved highlands.
She starts off small-scale by causing power cuts but as she grows bolder she slowly progresses to industrial sabotage, which brings the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building an aluminium smelter to a halt.
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