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MARIA DUARTE recommends a film about two brothers from New Delhi, who have devoted their lives to rescuing the black kites that fall daily from the skies
A scene from All That Breathes
CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience
All That Breathes (12A)
Directed by Shaunak Sen
SET against the backdrop of New Delhi’s toxic air pollution and escalating violence, Indian film-maker Shaunak Sen’s follow-up film to Cities of Sleep explores his home city through a bird called the black kite and two brothers who have devoted their lives to protecting it.
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