MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
Five Feet Apart (12A), directed by Justin Baldoni
An emotive drama about young lovers stricken with cystic fibrosis
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead
GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism
CHRIS SEARLE hears the ordeal of the Palestinian people in the improvised musicianship of a UK jazz trio
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
“NOTHING is going to save our lives – we are breathing borrowed air,” the cynical Will tells the optimistic but overly obsessive Stella in this latest disease-of-the-week film.
Both have cystic fibrosis (CF), meaning that they have to remain physically apart to prevent Will from giving her a killer bacteria. As you watch their love blossom after a prickly start, it is heartbreaking when they can’t do the things we all take for granted such as holding hands, touching, hugging and kissing.
In an act of rebellion, Stella, with the aid of a snooker cue, agrees that they should stand five feet apart.
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