SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
Film round-up: July 4, 2024
Trans perspectives, opposites attract, washed-out noir and white-knuckle fridging: the Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Orlando, My Political Biography, The Nature of Love, What Remains, and Kill
PAUL FOLEY recommends an extraordinary double bill that packs a punch and leaves you reeling
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a play about AI that results in a deadening disconnect for its audience
SIMON PARSONS applauds an insightful state-of-the-nation play that explores the growing class divide in South Africa
MATTHEW HAWKINS pays tribute to the performance artist and costumier, Leigh Bowery
SIMON DUFF reviews a new composition by German composer and pianist Florian Weber that blurs the line between where improvisation ends and composition begins
New releases from The Jim Mullen Quartet, Caroline Kraabel/John Edwards, and Matthew Muneses/Riza Printup
Orlando, My Political Biography (15)
Directed by Paul B. Preciado
★★★★
BOLD, and totally fascinating, acclaimed Spanish writer and activist Paul B Preciado’s directorial debut documentary explores and celebrates trans identity through Virginia Woolf’s iconic novel Orlando.
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