MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
Film round-up
Reviews of Infamous, The Vigil, Make Up, Summerland and Proxima
PHENOMENAL: Eva Green in Proxima
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
Infamous (15)
Directed by Joshua Caldwell
2*
A MODERN-DAY teenage Bonnie and Clyde become a social media sensation with their criminal postings in this morality tale about the evils of courting online fame.
Bella Thorne and Jake Manley play the charismatic young lovers from troubled backgrounds who rob their way across the country.
She is the driving force who just wants to be famous whatever the cost as long as she racks up the “likes” but he has the moral sense to know that killing cops and livestreaming your armed robberies isn’t going to end well.
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