MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Reviews of A Common Crime, Rose: A Love Story, Final Days, Wilderness, Songs My Brother Taught Me and Assimilate
OUTSTANDING: Songs my Brothers Taught Me
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
A Common Crime (12)
Directed by Francisco Marquez
★★★
A SOCIOLOGY teacher is seemingly haunted by the ghost of her maid’s murdered son in this intelligent political thriller masquerading as a supernatural tale.
Writer-director Francisco Marquez’s slow-burning film provides a subtle critique of Argentina’s social classes and the widening distance between rich and poor, and the way the latter are treated as lazy, ignorant, criminal and disposable by Argentinian society and authorities.
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