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Film round-up: April 10, 2025
The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARTIN HALL, MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID reviews Holy Cow, One to One: John and Yoko, King of Kings, Panda Bear in Africa
Maiwene Barthelemy and Clément Faveau in Holy Cow
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A dazzling novel, and autobiographical fiction, by Mexicans Brenda Navarro and Cristina Rivera Garza, and poetry by Brazilian Ricardo Domeneck
JONATHAN TAYLOR ponders the difference between autobiography and memoir - between life and story - in Margaret Atwood’s account of herself
Rereleases from Andrew Gold; John McFee, Stu Cook, Keith Knudsen; and The Outer Limits
Five years ago a flash crowd of Glaswegian activists defeated the Home Office and the police; MATT KERR urges you to savour that day in a cinema
SYLVIA HIKINS celebrates the chance that a new memoir offers to explore Frieda Brewster’s remarkable life story
Holy Cow (15)
Directed by Louise Courvoisier
★★★★
SHOT in France’s Jura region with non-professional actors, Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature is touching, elegiac and funny. A coming-of-age drama about friendship, integrity and post-industrial agriculture, it also reveals the agonies of making a wheel of Comté cheese.
A splendidly chaotic opening scene sets the tone. It features a cow sitting in a car, a man in a ragged vest lugging a beer barrel through a rural gala, and a drunken 18-year-old, Totone, performing a naked jig on a tabletop.
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