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Film round-up: May 1, 2025
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Parthenope, directed by Paolo Sorrentino / Pic: IMDb
MARY CONWAY applauds the revival of a tense, and extremely funny, study of men, money and playing cards
MEHDI ACHOUCHE explores the constant fascination of cinema with Marxist alienation from Fritz Lang and Chaplin to Bong Joon Ho
FIONA O’CONNOR steps warily through a novel that skewers many of the exposed flanks of the over-privileged
MARY CONWAY applauds the study of a dysfunctional family set in an Ireland that could be anywhere
MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
New releases from Mountain, Soul Asylum and Michael McDermott
Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade (12A)
Directed by Alan G Parker
★★
THERE is a scene in this documentary where a neighbour from the the building opposite the Dakota observes the murder and decides not to take a photograph of the prostrate John Lennon believing it would amount to an invasion of privacy.
The same should have been considered by the makers of this film which is just an interminable procession of “talking heads” mostly with little to say that would illuminate the subject in any substantive manner.
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