IAN SINCLAIR reviews new releases from The Beaches, CMAT and Katheleen Edwards
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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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RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
Brief History Of A Family (15)
Directed by Lin Jianjie
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