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Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
INSPIRING: The Payne family in Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's A New Kind of Wilderness / Pic: IMDb
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
A New Kind of Wilderness (12A)
Directed by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
★★★★
A NORWEGIAN-English couple, who left the rat race to bring up their four bilingual children on a small farm in a forest in Norway independently and self-sufficiently, are the focal point of this captivating and moving documentary by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen.
Choosing to live an isolated life, Maria and Nik Payne home-schooled their kids, teaching them to live wild and free and to be one with nature (watching them chop down trees was incredible to witness, if a little disturbing) and without technology.
Jacobsen first met Maria in 2014 after following her blog WildandFree.no but by the time she was able to make a film about the Paynes in 2019 they were dealing with grief following Maria’s death, which upended their idyllic life and propelled them into modern society.
