LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
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Chinese family under the microscope
ANGUS REID recommends an exquisite drama about the disturbing impact of the one child policy in contemporary China
BLOOD ON THE TRACKS: Xilun Sun as the mysterious interloper Yan Shun in Lin Jianjie's Brief History Of A Family
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KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an entertaining dramatisation of the famous dispute that gives insight into the struggle, and Murdoch’s unscrupulous mendacity
ELLIS RAE is disappointed by the revival of a nihilistic play that fails to offer alternatives for social change
Brief History Of A Family (15)
Directed by Lin Jianjie
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