MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Film round-up: July 25, 2024
Gay marriage, Anatolian snowscapes, lewd marvels and surreality TV: The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Mysterious Ways, About Dry Grasses, Deadpool & Wolverine, and I Saw The TV Glow
(L) Mysterious Ways; (R) About Dry Grasses
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Mysterious Ways
Directed by Paul Oremland
★★★
SET in New Zealand, this moving drama centres on a gay vicar who takes on his religious bosses in a bid to marry his Samoan boyfriend in church, sparking a media storm.
While his superiors do not have an issue with Peter (Richard Short, The Tragedy of Macbeth) being queer or having Jason (newcomer Nick Afoa) as his male partner, they do have a problem with the pair getting wed in a place of worship. Particularly when it scandalises the devout local community, inciting anti-gay protests.
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