Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
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
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
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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