The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends an impressive impersonation of Bob Dylan
Film round-up: November 21, 2024
A bucket-list of visuals, the unsung heroine of IVF, queer love in the City of London, and half a musical: The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Blink, Joy, Layla and Wicked
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Here, Vermiglio, William Tell and Wolf Man
New releases from Thorpe and Morrison, Daria Kulesh, and Will Finn and Rosie Calvert
RINA ARYA confronts the brutal operation of Francis Bacon’s approach to portraiture
Emphasising his continuous engagement in labour movement struggles, ALISTAIR FINDLAY salutes John Foster’s contribution as activist, strategist, intellectual and defender of the Morning Star
ANDY MIAH advocates the use of AI to assist people by expanding access to global literature and culture
EWAN KOTZ relishes a veteran Glasgow band that have lost none of their verve for live performance
Blink (U)
Directed by Daniel Roher and Edmund Stenson
★★★★
THIS beautiful yet heartbreaking film follows a Canadian couple who decide to take their four young children on a globe-trotting trip after they learn three of them are slowing going blind.
This awe-inspiring documentary begins with Edith Lemay and Sebastien Pelletier being told their daughter Mia (11) and their sons Colin (six) and Laurent (just four) have retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable and rare genetic disease. Their nine-year-old son Leo was spared.
A specialist advises the couple all they can do is to fill their kids’ visual memory by showing them images from books. Instead Edith says: “Let’s go all in and fill their visual memory with as many beautiful things as we can.”
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