Climate activist and writer JANE ROGERS introduces her new collection, Fire-ready, and examines the connection between life and fiction
Film round-up: April 29, 2022
MARIA DUARTE of Downton Abbey: A New Era, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, and Your Mum and Dad: A Devastating Truth
ELEANOR DOBSON reflects on a stark visual record of the violent desecration of Tutankhamun’s mummified remains
RUTH AYLETT appreciates the rich blend of poetry and music that accompanied the launch of the Morning Star’s anthology of poetry, Who We Are
WANJA KIMANI explores the many bonds of community experience expressed in in the bold and colourful imagery of a new mural
New releases from Keeley, Lucinda Williams and Ye Vagabonds
JAN WOOLF ponders the works and contested reputation of the West German sculptor and provocateur, who believed that everybody is potentially an artist
Downton Abbey: A New Era (PG)
Directed by Simon Curtis
★★★★
DOWNTON Abbey returns with all its cinematic glory and Upstairs-Downstairs intrigue as it continues where the 2019 film left off, but with the Crawley family now heading to the south of France on a fact-finding missing to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess’s newly inherited villa.
Written by Julian Fellowes and directed by Simon Curtis, the film, set in 1928, deals with Downton having to confront the modern world as Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery), to the horror of her father Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), agrees to allow a film company to shoot their silent movie at the estate in order to pay for much-needed roof repairs while he is away in the French Riviera.
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